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Birth - 20 yrs UK cross-sectional body mass index reference chart. 2008/1 IDENTIFICATION

Name......................................................... 10 12 yrs 14 16 18 20
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D.O.B. [DDMMYY] //

NHS No. Height [m] BMI 37 37
Height [m] BMI 36 36
Mother 35 35
Weight [kg] 34 34
33 3399.6th
Father
Weight [kg]

Body Mass Index (BMI)
Although highly correlated with weight, body mass index [BMI] is not a direct
measure of body fat and rapid changes in BMI can occur in normal childhood
growth. By itself it should therefore be interpreted with caution. Waist
circumference and body type should be evaluated before intervention or referral is
considered.

The red shaded area indicates a healthy BMI range bordered by the international 32 32
cut-offs for the degrees of overweight and thinness. The Royal College of 31 31
Paediatrics & Child Health has stated that severe or progressive obesity should be 30 30
referred to a paediatrician before age 2.
Referrals of infants showing signs of concerning overweight/underweight in their
early months [shaded grey] should be based on the 1st year weight charts with
95%/5% thrive lines.

29 2 4 yrs 6 8 98th 29

28 28

27 27

26 91st 26

25 25

24 24

75th

23 23

Body Mass Index (kg/m2) 22 22
50th

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20 25th 20

19 19

9th

18 18

17 2nd

17

16 0.4th

16

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14 14

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12 Data: 1990 12

11 years 11

EDD 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

Manufacture 22 June 12 BMIBG

Body mass index reference curves for the UK, 1990 (Cole TJ, Freeman JV, Preece MA) Arch Dis Child 1995; 73: 25-9
Establishing a standard definition for child overweight and obesity: international survey (Cole TJ, Bellizzi MC, Flegal KM, Dietz WH) BMJ 2000; 320: 1240-3
Body mass index cut-offs to define thinness in children and adolescents: international survey (Cole TJ, Flegal KM, Nicholls D, Jackson AA) BMJ 2007; 335: 194-7