Is an 11-year-old girl overweight if she weighs 117 pounds?

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC) states that the mean healthy weight for an 11-year-old girl is 98.3lbs, with lower and upper range limits, at the 5th and 95th percentiles, of 80.6 lbs and 129.3 lbs. However, this is dependent on height.

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