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The CDC BMI Percentile Calculator for Child and Teen was used to calculate child BMI percentile-for-age scores.Patients with a BMI percentile-for-age less than the 85 th percentile were considered of healthy weight, between the 85 th and 95 th percentile-for-age were overweight, greater than the 95 th percentile-for-age were considered obese, and patients with a BMI greater than the 99 Th percentile-for-age were considered severely obese [16,17].
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