Child health 199632103 109 underweight is defined as having a weight below 80 median weight for height overweight is having a body weight above 120 median weight for height. A territory wide cross sectional growth survey of hong kong on 24709 individuals from the age of newborn to 18 years was performed in 1993.
Boys A And Girls B Height For Age Charts For 0 18 Years
Weight for height chart hong kong. Weight for age and weight for height reference for hong kong children from birth to 18 years. Hong kong growth survey 1993. The median weight at 10 years is 30 kg. Weight for height chart female. Zhonghua er ke za zhi. Weight for age and weight for height percentile charts were prepared separately for boys and girls.
Height for age weight for age length for age babies weight for age babies puberty for age. Height and weight standardized growth charts for chinese children and adolescents aged 0 to 18 years. There are three others who are even heavier. There was an average increase of 85 kg and 51 kg in the 18 year old boys and girls. Referring to the hong kong weight for age chart a boy of 10 years weighing 50 kg is on the 97th centile meaning that among 100 individuals of the same age same sex he is heavier than 96. So any weight above 30 kg x 120 36 kg is considered overweight.
Gallery of Weight For Height Chart Hong Kong
