Updated Guidelines for Diagnosing, Treating, and Preventing Obesity in Children

These Endocrine Society guidelines include updated information about extreme obesity, laboratory testing, genomic syndromes, and bariatric surgery.

Sponsoring Organization: The Endocrine Society

Target Audience: Pediatricians and other clinicians who treat children

Based on evidence from two systematic reviews, an expert task force updated the original 2008 guidelines.

1. Diagnosis

Children ≥2 years of age are overweight if body-mass index (BMI) is ≥85th percentile but <95th percentile for age and sex; obese if BMI is ≥95%; extremely obese if BMI is ≥120% of the 95th percentile, or ≥35 kg/m².
Children <2 years of age are obese if weight for recumbent length on World Health Organization growth charts is ≥97.7th percentile.
Unless stature or height velocity is decreased (adjusting for parental stature and pubertal stage), laboratory studies to screen for endoc…

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