Table 1 Agreement between growth categories using Z-score and percentile cut-points for classification of BMI categories in children 0–5 years of age (n = 5836)
Z-score cut-points | Percentile cut-points | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Wasted | Normal | Risk of overweight | Overweight | Obese | |
< 3rd | 3rd to 85th | > 85th to 97th | > 97th to 99.9th | > 99.9th | |
< − 2.0 | 212 (3.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
− 2.0 to 1.0 | 33 (0.6%) | 4530 (77.6%) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
> 1.0 to 2.0 | 0 | 37 (0.6%) | 727 (12.5%) | 39 (0.7%) | 0 |
> 2.0 to 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 201 (3.4%) | 0 |
> 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 (0.1%) | 49 (0.8%) |