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This girl's height is 39.2 inches and her weight is 38.6 pounds. Using
her height and weight we calculated BMI to be 17.8.
Plotted on the BMI-for-age chart for girls, her BMI-for-age falls
between the 90th and 95th percentiles. She is classified as at risk of
overweight.
The point of this exercise is to demonstrate the difficulty of making a
consistently accurate visual assessment of at risk of overweight.
BMI-for-age needs to be obtained and plotted on the appropriate growth
chart to determine risk of overweight.
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