Doctors track a child's weight on what is known as a 'centile' line: a graph that predicts relative height and weight gain for their age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

The ribbon is over optimistic placing the ratio in the next centile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justgiving is changing – part 1 « The Justgiving Blog] Reference

She's still on the 50th centile for weight and the 91st for height though.    From Wordnik.com.  [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference

This puts her on the 75th centile for height and just above the 50th for weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference

Her height chart just shows a steady growth up from the 25th to above the 75th centile!.    From Wordnik.com.  [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference

Their achievements on objective tests are consistently above the ninety-ninth centile for black children on national norms.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Useful Is IQ?] Reference

Linnea was weighed fairly quickly and is now over 30lb which is, well, she's in the same 98th centile curve so there you go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Librarians weighing teeth and health] Reference

This is great as she had always been on a much higher centile for weight than height before and I was worried she was becoming too much of a chubber!.    From Wordnik.com.  [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference

Jaya's weight chart looks really funny though because she lost so much weight early on so it goes down to the 2nd centile, then shoots up to the 91st, then back down to the 50th!.    From Wordnik.com.  [tequilamonky Diary Entry] Reference

Over time it was shorted from 1 per centile to 1 per cent.    From Wordnik.com.  [GeekLikeMe.net] Reference

It was originally "1 per centile" meaning one per hundred units.    From Wordnik.com.  [GeekLikeMe.net] Reference

Moving upward from one centile to another, however, may suggest a weight-gain problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

(NICE), class children with a BMI on or above the 91st centile as overweight and those on or above the 98th centile as obese. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

A medical evaluation showed the girl was in the 25th per centile for weight and the 50th per centile for height among girls her age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Brandon Sun Online - Top Stories] Reference

By identifying those with an upwards centile crossing between 2 and 6 years, the development towards adult overweight might be reversed.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Our communities, with one or two exceptions, fall in the bottom three centile rungs in the socio-economic grading of Israeli communities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dissident Voice] Reference

The median birth weight centile of babies having abnormal values in two (or more) indices was the 11th centile for gestational age (95%CI 6.3 to 16.3).    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

But when the Department of Health set up the new scheme, it decided that children only needed to be on the 85th centile to be overweight - those on the 95th centile or above were obese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

Conclusions: Among children, BMIs for US children at the 95th centile are below those in China, whereas among women, Australian and UK women are rapidly approaching BMIs found in US women.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue] Reference

For example, the mean BMI at the 95th centile for 6-y-old Chinese children is 24.8 (a 5.0 increase), which is 2.6 BMI units more than the BMI at the 95th centile for children in the United.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue] Reference

Univariate three-group comparisons found that birth weight and length, preterm delivery, gestational age, and postnatal weight at or below the 10th centile differed significantly between the groups.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

Quantile regression analysis with BMI was used to determine the outcome, and the coefficients of age, age squared, and age cubed represented the explanatory variables plotted to determine mean BMI at the 95th centile for each age group.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Journal of Clinical Nutrition current issue] Reference

After one fetus died and the placenta became increasingly echogenic, the patient improved clinically, and weekly ultrasound assessments of the intact co-twin from 22 weeks onwards demonstrated symmetrical fetal growth along the 10th centile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

Two of the centile in reading comprehension (increasing their most basic questions are the following: scores by as much as 30 percentile points after hav - 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Moreover, 6% to 32% of babies having abnormal values in just one index were apparently well-grown and the median birth weight centile of babies having abnormal values of either of two indices was found to be as high as the 46th centile for gestational age (95%CI 35.5 to.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

The average child will be on the 50th centile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home | Mail Online] Reference

2-6 y, especially in this age interval upwards centile crossing is an additional risk to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Significance was set at the 95th centile.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Below 9th centile again.) and his height.    From Wordnik.com.  [WordPress.com News] Reference

98th centile normal, but still - normal!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medical] Reference