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Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 1 Weight status category and percentile range

From: Multiple risk factors affecting childhood psychosocial dysfunction in primary school Egyptian children

Weight status category

Percentile range

Underweight

Less than the 5th percentile

Normal or healthy weight

5th percentile to less than the 85th percentile

Overweight

85th to less than the 95th percentile

Obese

Equal to or greater than the 95th percentile

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