Assessment table and classification of adult nutritional status

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Nutrition plays an important role in ensuring the quality of work and life activities of people. Therefore, people have sought to standardize to assess nutritional status based on the relationship between weight and height. From the assessment, people who are outside the normal range can self-adjust to a reasonable weight.

1. What is a nutritional status assessment?

Assessment of nutritional status is the foremost technical content in the field of nutrition. Nutritional status was assessed through specific clinical manifestations, biochemical indicators and nutritional anthropometric measurements. Nutrition anthropometric measurement is a measurement tool with sensitive, objective properties and wide application significance in assessing the nutritional status of an individual or the community.
Nutrition plays an important role in human life. Lack of nutrition makes the body thin, weak in strength and immunity, edema, changes in skin, hair and a number of other manifestations that seriously affect the quality of life of people. Therefore, the use of nutritional indicators is of particular importance.
In the activity of monitoring or continuously monitoring the nutritional status of an individual or the community through nutritional indicators, there is a great scientific and practical significance. Furthermore, the measurement does not require expensive equipment and can be performed easily. Therefore, the assessment of nutritional status through nutritional indicators is widely applied in medical examination and treatment.

2. Assessment and classification of adult nutritional status

According to Body Mass Index – BMI, WHO 1995 in assessing nutritional status of adults, nutritional status is classified as:
Normal: BMI from 18.50-24.99 Thin: BMI <18.50 Excess weight: BMI > 25.0 Obesity: BMI > 30.0 BMI is calculated based on the following formula:

In which:
Weight: Weight, in kilograms Height: Height, in m2

Some concepts Skinny is a state of weight lower than the existing height, low fat storage due to many causes such as malabsorption, picky eating, or because of the body, etc. Overweight is the condition of being overweight. should be heavy for the height. People who are overweight are often due to causes such as inactivity, eating more than expended energy, etc. adverse health effects.

The assessment and classification of adult nutritional status is important in creating standards so that people can know the nutritional balance of the body based on the correlation between weight and height. . From there, it helps overweight and underweight people to adjust their weight to get a healthy body, serving well for activities in life.

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