BODY MASS INDEX
(CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS)
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Calculate the BMI of children and teenagers
How to calculate your daily calorie requirement?
The Body Mass Index (BMI) is one of the indicators used by the World Health Organization to verify nutritional status, calculated using the following formula: current weight (kg) / height. Your adult rating is widely publicized and is also available on this site under CALCULATE YOUR BMI.

However, classification for children and adolescents follows specific criteria. On the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website (http://www.cdc.gov) there is a BMI calculation available for children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years with the respective BMI-for-age percentiles based on CDC charts BMI for age - BMI-for-age growth charts available at http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts.

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The classification of low weight (underweight), healthy weight (healthy weight), overweight (overweight) and obesity (obesity) is also obtained, according to the result obtained. Use the metric system version.