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TENS of thousands of children could be overweight without their parents realising it.
Health experts said yesterday that using Body Mass Index to calculate whether youngsters are obese is unreliable, especially for girls.
Those who are not diagnosed are at risk of suffering from diabetes and heart disease later in life.
Senior academic Claire Griffiths said: ?The problem with BMI is that it does not tell us about the weight distribution on a child.?
A team led by Ms Griffiths at Leeds Metropolitan University measured 14,967 school pupils? fat levels using both BMI scores and their Waist Circumference measure.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/obesity-bmi-test-in-kids-is-unreliable-893953
Health experts said yesterday that using Body Mass Index to calculate whether youngsters are obese is unreliable, especially for girls.
Those who are not diagnosed are at risk of suffering from diabetes and heart disease later in life.
Senior academic Claire Griffiths said: ?The problem with BMI is that it does not tell us about the weight distribution on a child.?
A team led by Ms Griffiths at Leeds Metropolitan University measured 14,967 school pupils? fat levels using both BMI scores and their Waist Circumference measure.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/obesity-bmi-test-in-kids-is-unreliable-893953