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Growth reference 5-19 years

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BMI-for-age (5-19 years)

Cut-offs

Overweight: >+1SD (equivalent to BMI 25 kg/m2 at 19 years)

Obesity: >+2SD
(equivalent to BMI 30 kg/m2 at 19 years)

Thinness: <-2SD

Severe thinness: <-3SD

Charts

- z-score: girls [pdf 23kb] | with labels [pdf 31kb]

- z-scores: boys [pdf 23kb] | with labels [pdf 31kb]

- percentiles: girls [pdf 22kb]

- percentiles: boys [pdf 22kb]

Tables

- z-scores: girls [pdf 218kb]

- z-scores: boys [pdf 218kb]

- percentiles: girls [pdf 329kb]

- percentiles: boys [pdf 329kb]

- simplified field tables

Expanded tables for constructing national health cards

- Instructions [pdf 24kb]

- z-scores: girls [txt 15kb]

- z-scores: boys [txt 15kb]

- percentiles: girls [txt 17kb]

- percentiles: boys [txt 17kb]

Computation of centiles and z-scores

Instructions [pdf 165kb] | en français [pdf 173kb]

Comparison with IOTF and CDC

- WHO vs. IOTF [pdf 30kb]

- WHO vs. CDC 2000 [pdf 53kb]