Nutritional Status among Females of Bhaina Tribe of Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India: An Anthropological Insight

Table 2

Age specific cutoff points of BMI described by WHO 1995 [8] and Cole et al. 2000 and 2007 [9, 10].

Categories	Age	Thinness			Overweight	Obese	Reference
		Grade III (<16.0)	Grade II (16.0–16.9)	Grade I; (17.0–18.49)	(25.0–29.99)	(≥30)	WHO, 1995 [8]
Preschool	2	13.24	13.90	14.83	18.02	19.81	Cole et al., 2000, 2007 [9, 10]
	3	12.98	13.60	14.47	17.56	19.36
	4	12.73	13.34	14.19	17.28	19.15
	5	12.50	13.09	13.94	17.15	19.17
Children	6	12.32	12.93	13.83	17.34	19.65
	7	12.26	12.91	13.86	17.75	20.51
	8	12.31	13.00	14.02	18.35	21.57
	9	12.44	13.18	14.28	19.07	22.81
	10	12.64	13.43	14.61	19.86	24.11
	11	12.95	13.79	15.05	20.74	25.42
	12	13.39	14.28	15.62	21.68	26.67
Adolescent	13	13.92	14.85	16.26	22.58	27.76
	14	14.48	15.43	16.88	23.34	28.57
	15	15.01	15.98	17.45	23.94	29.11
	16	15.46	16.44	17.91	24.37	29.43
	17	15.78	16.77	18.25	24.70	29.69
	18	16.00	17.00	18.50	25.00	30.00