Characterizing extreme values of body mass index-for-age by using the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts

• Published in: The American journal of clinical nutrition Vol. 90; no. 5; pp. 1314 - 1320
• Main Authors: Flegal, Katherine M, Wei, Rong, Ogden, Cynthia L, Freedman, David S, Johnson, Clifford L, Curtin, Lester R
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bethesda, MD American Society for Clinical Nutrition 01.11.2009; American Society for Nutrition; American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc
• Subjects: 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts; Adolescent; Biological and medical sciences; Body Mass Index; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S; Child; child nutrition; Child, Preschool; children; Children & youth; data analysis; Disease control; disease detection; Disease prevention; estimation; Feeding. Feeding behavior; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Growth - physiology; Human growth; Humans; Male; Nutrition Surveys; obesity; overweight; Overweight - epidemiology; Thinness - epidemiology; United States - epidemiology; Vertebrates: anatomy and physiology, studies on body, several organs or systems; Young Adult; United States; Human; Prevention; Body mass index; Growth; Age

BACKGROUND: The 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts included lambda-mu-sigma (LMS) parameters intended to calculate smoothed percentiles from only the 3rd to the 97th percentile. OBJECTIVE: The objective was to evaluate different approaches to describing more extreme...