Increased Body Mass Index during Therapy for Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia: A Significant and Underestimated Complication

Figure 2

Scatter plot of BMI -scores (in standard deviation (SD) units) for each individual at (a) diagnosis and (b) end of treatment. Red (female) and blue (male) shaded areas represent 95% prediction intervals from healthy (Raine study) individuals and colored lines represent mean healthy BMI -scores. The black horizontal line indicates the CDC cut-off for the obese BMI category. There is a marked increase in the number of individuals in the obese category at the end of treatment.

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