The limitations of transforming very high BMIs into z-scores among 8.7 million 2- to 4-year olds

OBJECTIVE: To examine the associations among several BMI metrics (z-scores, percent of the 95(th) percentile (%BMI(p95)) and ΔBMIp95 (BMI minus 95(th) percentile) as calculated in the CDC growth charts. It is known that the widely-used BMI z-scores and percentiles calculated from the growth charts c...

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I publikationen:J Pediatr
Huvudupphovsmän: Freedman, David S, Butte, Nancy F, Taveras, Elsie M, Goodman, Alyson B, Ogden, Cynthia L, Blanck, Heidi M
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: 2017
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Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5572545/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28433203
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpeds.2017.03.039
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