Obesity in children and adolescents: diagnosis criteria

Abstract

Currently in the world the main diagnostic parameter for assessing obesity is the magnitude of body mass index. In children, taking into account the growth and body weight indicators that dynamically change as the child grows up, it is common to use not absolute, but relative values of body mass index — percentiles or standard deviations. The lecture examined various systems and methods for assessing the physical development of children in the world and in Russia — domestic ones, R.N. Dorokhova and I.I. Bakhraha, World Health Organization (WHO), International Group for the Study of Obesity. A comparative analysis of the existing systems and the validity of the currently adopted Federal recommendations on the diagnosis of obesity in children based on the recommendations of WHO has been carried out.

Keywords

• obesity in children
• body mass index
• criteria for obesity in children