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Coverage dated December 14, 2022

CDC Updates Growth Charts to Include More BMI Scores to Track Increasing Childhood Obesity

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U.S. health officials have updated a tool to track rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Expanded growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now include a body mass index of 60 — up from previous charts that stopped a…

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  1. NBC4 Washington

    CDC Updates Growth Charts to Include More BMI Scores to Track Increasing Childhood Obesity (opens NBC4 Washington)

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    U.S. health officials have updated a tool to track rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Expanded growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now include a body mass index of 60 — up from previous charts that stopped a…

  2. NBC10 Philadelphia

    Growing Obesity Crisis in U.S. Prompts CDC to Expand Body Mass Index Charts for Severely Overweight Kids (opens NBC10 Philadelphia)

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    More than 4.5 million children and teenagers had severe obesity in 2018, according to the CDC.

  3. WISH-TV Indianapolis

    Health officials revise tool to track severe obesity in kids (opens WISH-TV Indianapolis)

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    (AP) — U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth charts released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now extend to a body mass index of 60 — up from previous charts th…

  4. Wfmy News 2

    Childhood BMI chart revised to track severe child obesity (opens Wfmy News 2)

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    In recent decades, severe obesity among children in America has nearly quadrupled, experts said.

  5. STAT

    Health officials revise BMI tool to track severe obesity in kids (opens STAT)

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    U.S. health officials have revised a tool to track the rising cases of severe obesity among children who were previously off the charts. Updated growth

  6. Bloomberg

    CDC Expands BMI Charts for Children to Include Those With Severe Obesity (opens Bloomberg)

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    The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is expanding charts that doctors use to track kids’ growth and development to include Body Mass Index as high as 60.

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