BMI as a measure of obesity in Sri Lankan children: validity of currently used cut off values.

Wickramasinghe V.P., Lamabadusuriya S.P., Cleghorn G.J., Davies P.S.W.
The Ceylon Medical Journal 2009;54(4):114-19
Publication year: 2009

BMI is used as the tool to diagnose nutritonal status of children above 5 years of age, especially to diagnose obesity. This paper discuss how the current  BMI cutoff values help in the diagnosis of obesity.