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In the next three slides, we want you to do a self-test to see how well
you can screen for risk of overweight in children by looking. We want you
to try to identify children with a BMI-for-age equal to or greater than
the 85th percentile and less than the 95th percentile.
It has been said that "few medical conditions can be diagnosed as
confidently by untrained individuals as gross obesity." Yet it is
very difficult to distinguish children who are at risk of overweight from
normal children. In childhood, the distinction is made more difficult by
age-related physiological variations.
So, see how you do with the three photos. This first one is a boy who
is 3 years old. Does he appear at risk of overweight?
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