Specific age-adjusted charts are needed. An example can be found at the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention website .
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We developed equations for age-adjusted sex-specific BMI autocorrelation using 5209 subjects 28 years of age and older at baseline from the Framingham Heart Study.
Several organizations, however, define childhood obesity as a BMI above the 95th age-adjusted percentile (Barlow and Dietz, 1998; Bellizzi and Dietz, 1999).
 See also: Overweight, Waist circumference, Diabetes, Obesity, Health
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