Body mass index (BMI) [Percentile] 59574-4
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 59574-4 | ||||||
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| name | Body mass index (BMI) [Percentile] | ||||||
| description | The percentile of a patient's body mass index indicates the relative position of the patient's BMI number among a given population. For adults 20 years old and older, BMI is calculated using standard weight status categories that are the same for all ages and for both men and women. For children and teens, on the other hand, the interpretation of BMI is both age- and sex-specific. This term does not specify whether the interpretation of percentile is based on age and sex or not. | ||||||
| status | ACTIVE | ||||||
Fully-Specified Name | |||||||
| component | Body mass index | ||||||
| property | Prctl = Percentile | ||||||
| time | Pt = Point in time: To identify measures at a point in time. This is a synonym for “spot” or “random” as applied to urine measurements. | ||||||
| system | ^Patient | ||||||
| scale | Qn = Quantitative: The result of the test is a numeric value that relates to a continuous numeric scale. Reported either as an integer, a ratio, a real number, or a range. The test result value may optionally contain a relational operator from the set {<=, <, >, >=}. Valid values for a quantitative test are of the form "7", "-7", "7.4", "-7.4", "7.8912", "0.125", "<10", "<10.15", ">12000", 1-10, 1:256 | ||||||
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| short name | BMI Prctl | ||||||
Basic Attributes | |||||||
| class | BDYWGT.MOLEC | ||||||
| type | 2 Clinical | ||||||
| example UCUM units | % The Unified Code for Units of Measure (UCUM) is a code system intended to include all units of measures being contemporarily used in international science, engineering, and business (www.unitsofmeasure.org) | ||||||
| example unit | % | ||||||
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LOINC codes that represent optional associated observation(s) for a clinical observation or laboratory test. A LOINC term may represent a single associated observation or panel containing several associated observations. | |||||||
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History/Usage | |||||||
| test rank | 333 of 2000 most commonly performed tests by labs in USA | ||||||
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| last updated | 2.73 | ||||||
| last change type | MIN - change to field other than name | ||||||
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