A new Northwestern Medicine study introduces a first-of-its-kind online calculator that uses percentiles to help younger adults forecast and understand their risk of a heart event over the next 30 ...

American children are increasingly tipping the scale, and the extra weight may be putting them at risk for immediate and future health complications, including depression, type 2 diabetes, and heart ...

Use this calculator to determine whether a child is at a healthy weight for his/her height, age and sex. The BMI-percentile-for-age calculator automatically adjusts for differences in height, age and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Last year, the CDC released new BMI-for-age growth charts for children. The CDC defines severe obesity as a BMI ...

For decades, parents have viewed their child’s spot on the growth chart as if it were a grade on a test. But how useful are these diagrams, really, in communicating the state of your child’s health?