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Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Vol. 22, No. 2, 240-245 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/0115426507022002240

Clinical Dilemma

Ideal Body Weight in Children

Sharon Phillips, RD, CNSD, CD*, Angela Edlbeck, RD, CD*, Midge Kirby, MS, RD, CSP* and Praveen Goday, MBBS, CNSP{dagger}

* Department of Clinical Nutrition, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and the{dagger} Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Correspondence: Praveen Goday, MBBS, CNSP, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226. Electronic mail may be sent to pgoday{at}mcw.edu.

There is no clear consensus on the correct definition of ideal body weight (IBW) in children or on the best method used to calculate IBW. There are at least 3 ways of obtaining IBW in children. They are (1) the McLaren method, (2) the Moore method, and (3) the body mass index method. In children under the age of 8 years, all of these methods provide relatively similar results across all percentiles. In older children, especially at the lowest and highest percentiles, the different methods provide widely disparate results for IBW. It is important to be consistent in the method used as the different methods will provide different results for IBW.


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