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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Immunol Allergy Clin North Am. 2014 Aug 28;34(4):777–784. doi: 10.1016/j.iac.2014.07.002

Figure 1. Body Mass Index.

Figure 1

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) define overweight as a body-mass index (BMI, the weight in kilograms divided by the square of the height in meters) at the 85th to less than the 95th percentile for age, whereas obesity is defined as a BMI at or above the 95th percentile. Today, nearly one in three children in America are overweight or obese and the majority of the United States has already passed the 30% mark.