A method for calculating BMI z-scores and percentiles above the 95th percentile of the CDC growth charts

Authors :: Van Parsons
Rong Wei
Cynthia L. Ogden
Craig M. Hales
David S. Freedman
Source :: Annals of Human Biology. 47:514-521
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2020.
Abstract: The 2000 CDC growth charts are based on national data collected between 1963 and 1994 and include a set of selected percentiles between the 3rd and 97th and LMS parameters that can be used to obtai...

Subjects :: Aging
Percentile
Half-normal distribution
Physiology
Epidemiology
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Standard score
medicine.disease
Childhood obesity
Statistics
Genetics
medicine
Body mass index
National data
Mathematics

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