New BMI charts for children, teens with severe obesity by: Kristen Gallant. Posted: Dec 15, 2022 / 06:36 PM EST. Updated: Dec 15, 2022 / 06:36 PM EST. by: Kristen Gallant.

Worried about your child’s weight? Enter information into this WebMD tool to learn your child’s BMI and see if your child is overweight or obese. Plus, what to do.

Last year, the CDC updated its 22-year-old pediatric BMI-for-age growth charts to add BMIs above the 97th percentile for the first time in order to track severe obesity in children aged 2 to 19 years.

Prior to the update, BMI charts for children ages 2 to 19 had been published in 2000 and were based on data from 1963 to 1980 when obesity rates in children were much lower.

A child is considered obese if they reach the 95th percentile on the growth charts, and severely obese at 120% of that mark — or with a BMI of 35 or higher, according to the CDC.

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For children, getting weighed and measured is a routine part of a visit to the doctor. Parents may notice that the nurse enters the information onto a growth chart where a little dot indicates where ...