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The 2000 CDC growth charts - a revised version of the 1977 NCHS growth charts - are the current standard tool for health care providers and offer 16 charts (8 for boys and 8 for girls), of which BMI-for-age is commonly used for aiding in the diagnoses of childhood obesity. [1]
Weight and height percentiles are determined by growth charts and body mass index charts to compare a child's measurements with those of other children in the same age group. By doing this, doctors can track a child's growth over time and monitor how a child is growing in relation to other children.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Relative weight based on mass and height Medical diagnostic method Body mass index (BMI) Chart showing body mass index (BMI) for a range of heights and weights in both metric and imperial. Colours indicate BMI categories defined by the World Health Organization ; underweight, normal ...
Compared to traditional metrics, such as the body mass index (BMI), (which uses weight and height), BRI may improve predictions of the amount of body fat and the volume of visceral adipose tissue. Despite its common use, BMI can misclassify individuals as obese because it does not distinguish between a person's lean body mass and fat mass ...
In statistics, a k-th percentile, also known as percentile score or centile, is a score below which a given percentage k of scores in its frequency distribution falls ("exclusive" definition) or a score at or below which a given percentage falls ("inclusive" definition); i.e. a score in the k-th percentile would be above approximately k% of all scores in its set.
Where you fall on a BMI chart provides some clues into your health. This article features a BMI chart for women 18 and older.
Household income distribution 10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile 95th percentile ≤ $15,700: ≤ $28,000: ≤ $40,500: ≤ $55,000: $70,800: ≤ $89,700: ≤ $113,200: ≤ $149,100: ≤ $212,100: ≤ $286,300
Table A-3: Selected Measures of Household Income Dispersion: 1967 to 2003 (PDF). Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003 36–37. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on 2007-06-16. This image is intended to replace en:File:Income 1967.jpg with an SVG version This work is entirely my own, built using gnuplot 4.0.