By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer
A new study says almost 1 in 5 American 4-year-olds is obese, and the rate is alarmingly higher among American Indian children, with nearly a third of them obese.
Overall, more than half a million 4-year-olds are obese, the study suggests. The results appear in Monday’s Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
The article goes on to say that children were considered obese if their body-mass index, a height-weight ratio, was in the 95th percentile or higher based on government BMI growth charts. For 4-year-olds, that would be a BMI of about 18.
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