BODY MASS INDEX (BMI) is an important measure for many working out how healthy they are, but what should your BMI be according to your age? ByKaisha Langton 14:23, Sun, Aug 22, 2021 | UPDATED: 14: ...

Even medical professionals use BMI to assess health risks associated with obesity, excess or low weight. This calculator computes your body mass index based on your gender, age, height and weight.

Age, gender and race also contribute to how well BMI reflects body fat. For example, at the same BMI, women tend to have more body fat than men, who tend to have more muscle tissue.

However, there are some limitations to BMI: it does not directly measure excess body fat, and and it does adjust for factors like age, sex, ethnicity, and muscle mass.

Growth charts show patterns of development by age, expressed in BMI, a calculation of height and weight, and also in curves called percentiles. Unlike adults, children are not classified as obese or ...

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.

BMI charts are available from birth to age two, but are generally not used in clinical care. Unlike BMI charts, the more widely used WFL charts, do not have an age component; therefore, children ...

They also found that low BMI was more common in the older age group. This presents a conundrum: low BMI is both lethal and increasingly common with older age.

Background: Weight for height in children is often assessed by comparing the child's weight-for-age centile with their height-for-age centile. However, this assessment has not been validated ...

For most adults, the ideal BMI is between 18.5 and 24.9 range, but different ages have different ideal ranges. READ MORE: Cholesterol levels by age chart: What YOUR cholesterol level should be ...