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Figure 5. Trends in obesity among children and adolescents aged 2–19 years, by age: United States, 1963–1965 through 2017–2018. Obesity is defined as body mass index (BMI) greater than or equal to the 95th percentile from the sex-specific BMI-for-age 2000 CDC Growth Charts. Taken from reference (50).