article_snippet: The scale  classifies children as very overweight (or obese), overweight, a healthy weight, or underweight.
article_snippet: According to official guidelines, children are classified as overweight at the 85th centile and very overweight (or obese) at the 95th centile.
article_snippet: The team estimated that for a child with a BMI at the 98th centile there was an 80 per cent chance that the parent would classify the parent child as a healthy weight.
article_snippet: However, their recognised that parents became more likely to classify their child as overweight when their child’s weight had a BMI above the 99.7th centile.
article_snippet: Graph, from the US' Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, shows how an a 10 year old boy would be considered healthy, underweight, healthy, overweight or obese depending on which percentile they are in on the BMI chart.
article_snippet: A 10 year old with a BMI of 23 would be in the obese category (95th percentile or greater)