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The expert committees' recommendations are to classify BMI-for-age at
or above the 95th percentile as overweight and between the 85th and 95th
percentile as at risk of overweight.
The 85th percentile is included on the BMI-for-age and the
weight-for-stature charts to identify those at risk of overweight.
The cutoff for underweight of less than the 5th percentile is based on
recommendations by the World Health Organization Expert Committee on
Physical Status.1
1 The World Health Organization Expert
Committee on Physical Status. The Use and Interpretation of Anthropometry.
Physical Status: Report of a WHO Expert Committee: WHO Technical Report
Series 854, WHO, Geneva, 1996.
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