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Posted On : 09 Aug 2004

I want to know that weight for stature growth charts only gives you figures for weight upto to height of 137 cm. How will you know the weight from height of a female child whose height is beyond 137cm and a male child whose height is beyond 145cm?

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Dr Santosh

In such situations you need to see the body mass index. Also, individual weight for age and height for age from the NCHS charts {revised 2000} would be useful rather than to look at the weight for height charts.

21 years ago

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