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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
FARGO ? When a child has a weight problem, it can be a sensitive subject for medical professionals to broach with his or her parents.
After all, the kid isn?t the one shopping for groceries. And frequently, the parents or siblings are waging a similar battle with weight themselves.
?It can be a difficult conversation to have sometimes,? said Dr. Rebecca Bakke with Sanford Health. ?As a pediatrician, my job is to review a child?s growth and development with the parent. ? The best way I address it is to objectively look at the growth chart.?
Children aren?t diagnosed with obesity the same way adults are. While adults are classified overweight or obese by their BMI, or body mass index, pediatricians look at children?s percentile on a growth chart, or how their BMI compares to other children of their same age and gender.
A child between the 85th and 95th percentiles is considered overweight, and obese at the 95th percentile or above. A child wouldn?t be considered overweight or obese until at least age 2.
http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/article/id/63498/
After all, the kid isn?t the one shopping for groceries. And frequently, the parents or siblings are waging a similar battle with weight themselves.
?It can be a difficult conversation to have sometimes,? said Dr. Rebecca Bakke with Sanford Health. ?As a pediatrician, my job is to review a child?s growth and development with the parent. ? The best way I address it is to objectively look at the growth chart.?
Children aren?t diagnosed with obesity the same way adults are. While adults are classified overweight or obese by their BMI, or body mass index, pediatricians look at children?s percentile on a growth chart, or how their BMI compares to other children of their same age and gender.
A child between the 85th and 95th percentiles is considered overweight, and obese at the 95th percentile or above. A child wouldn?t be considered overweight or obese until at least age 2.
http://www.thedickinsonpress.com/event/article/id/63498/