Body mass index (BMI) [Percentile] Per age and sex 59576-9
LOINC Code
| LOINC code | 59576-9 | ||
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| name | Body mass index (BMI) [Percentile] Per age and sex | ||
| 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 children and teens the interpretation of BMI is both age- and sex-specific. | ||
| 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 | ||
| method | Per age and sex | ||
Additional Names | |||
| short name | BMI Prctl Per age+sex | ||
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 | % | ||
Associated Observations | |||
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 | |||
| first released | |||
| last updated | 2.66 | ||
| last change type | MAJ - change to name field other than Component; | ||
| change reason | Updated "Gender" to "Sex" in Method to to correctly represent the concept based on WHO definitions of sex and gender | ||
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