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Ideal Body Weight in Children
Author(s) -
Phillips Sharon,
Edlbeck Angela,
Kirby Midge,
Goday Praveen
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/0115426507022002240
Subject(s) - percentile , medicine , ideal (ethics) , body weight , body mass index , pediatrics , statistics , mathematics , philosophy , epistemology
There is no clear consensus on the correct definition of ideal body weight (IBW) in children or on the best method used to calculate IBW. There are at least 3 ways of obtaining IBW in children. They are (1) the McLaren method, (2) the Moore method, and (3) the body mass index method. In children under the age of 8 years, all of these methods provide relatively similar results across all percentiles. In older children, especially at the lowest and highest percentiles, the different methods provide widely disparate results for IBW. It is important to be consistent in the method used as the different methods will provide different results for IBW.