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Scenario 2 - continued

You weigh and measure Julie and plot growth. You compare this information to her weight and height at her last clinic visit.

Julie: weight- and height-for-age charts Julie; BMI-for-age chart

Julie's weight-for-age and BMI-for-age have increased. BMI-for-age was at the 50th percentile eleven months ago; it is now at the 95th percentile.

Julie's height-for-age remains below the 5th percentile on the CDC charts and at the 50th percentile on the charts for children with Prader-Willi syndrome (chart not shown).

Based on Julie's growth pattern, you suspect that Julie's:

a. BMI is increased because she is about to experience a growth spurt
 b. vitamin and mineral intake is inadequate
 c. energy intake is excessive
 d. energy intake is adequate, but BMI is up because of Prader Willi syndrome

   
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