Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269558 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 01/03/2005 Indigenous, Standard 13/03/2015 |
Definition: | The category of weight deficit or excess in adults and weight excess only in children and adolescents. |
Context: | Public health and health care: BMI is used as an indicator of underweight, normal or healthy weight and overweight and obesity in adults and of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents. On a population basis there is a strong association between BMI and health risk. |