Hammer L D, Kraemer H C, Wilson D M, Ritter P L, Dornbusch S M
Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, Calif.
Am J Dis Child. 1991 Mar;145(3):259-63. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1991.02160030027015.
Weight-for-height indexes are often used in the clinical assessment of obesity in children and adolescents. The direct measurement of adiposity, using hydrostatic weighing and other techniques, is not feasible in studies involving young children or with large numbers of older subjects. Ratios of weight relative to height, such as the body-mass index (weight/height), may be used as indirect measures of obesity and correlate with more direct measures of adiposity. Using data from the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, 1971 to 1974, standardized percentile curves of body-mass index for white children and adolescents were developed. These curves may be used to monitor the body-mass index of white children and adolescents longitudinally and for comparing an individual with others of the same sex and age.
身高体重指数常用于儿童和青少年肥胖的临床评估。在涉及幼儿或大量年长受试者的研究中，使用水下称重法和其他技术直接测量肥胖程度并不可行。体重与身高的比率，如体重指数（体重/身高），可用作肥胖的间接测量指标，并与更直接的肥胖测量指标相关。利用1971年至1974年第一次全国健康和营养检查研究的数据，绘制了白人儿童和青少年体重指数的标准化百分位数曲线。这些曲线可用于纵向监测白人儿童和青少年的体重指数，并用于将个体与同性和同龄的其他人进行比较。
