BMI for Age Percentile As Criteria for Assessment of Obesity in Children and Adolescents

Abstract

The most useful population-level measure of overweight and obesity is BMI. This measure is same for men and women of all ages. But it should not be thought to be as final factor to calculate the same body fat percentage in different individuals. Various proposed reference values for overweight and obesity exist for BMI, but the combined effect of BMI and BMI for age percentile recommendations is scarce. A total 2048 children participated in the epidemiological survey. According to Body Mass Index in the study, 66.26% subjects were found to be malnourished in the total population. The degree of obesity had been observed as Pre-obese 3.81% and Obese-I 3.81% and Obese-II were 0.88%. Pre-obese, obese-I and obese-II boys were more than the girls. According to BMI-for-age percentile, overall, 6.20% of children and adolescents were at risk of overweight and 4.39% were overweight during health survey while 24.80% are underweight.