A nurse is planning a class for school-age children on obesity. Which percentile does the body mass index (BMI) need to exceed for a child to be assessed as obese?
What will be an ideal response?
95
95th
When intake of food exceeds expenditure, the excess is stored as fat. Obesity is an
excessive accumulation of fat in the body and is assessed in children as a BMI that exceeds
the 95th percentile for age.
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