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Characterizing extreme values of body mass index-for-age by using the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts.
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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 values of body mass index (BMI)-for-age by using simple functions of the CDC growth charts. Design Empirical data for the 99th and the 1st percentiles of BMI-for-age were calculated from the data set used to construct the growth charts and were compared with estimates extrapolated from the CDC-supplied LMS parameters and to various functions of other smoothed percentiles. A set of reestimated LMS parameters that incorporated a smoothed 99th percentile were also evaluated. Results Extreme percentiles extrapolated from the CDC-supplied LMS parameters did not match well to the empirical data for the 99th percentile. A better fit to the empirical data was obtained by using 120% of the smoothed 95th percentile. The empirical first percentile was reasonably well approximated by extrapolations from the LMS values. The reestimated LMS parameters had several drawbacks and no clear advantages. Conclusions Several approximations can be used to describe extreme high values of BMI-for-age with the use of the CDC growth charts. Extrapolation from the CDC-supplied LMS parameters does not provide a good fit to the empirical 99th percentile values. Simple approximations to high values as percentages…
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- Authors
- Flegal, K. M., Wei, R., Ogden, C. L., Freedman, D. S., Johnson, C. L., & Curtin, L. R.
- Affiliations
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US)
- National Center for Health Statistics (US)
- Corresponding author
- Flegal, Katherine M
- Venue
- The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2009-11
- Volume
- 90
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1314-1320
- ISSN
- 0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2130113732
- Cited by
- 435
- References
- 29
- Citations by year
- 2026: 8 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 32 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 38 · 2017: 42 · 2016: 30 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 29 · 2013: 28 · 2012: 28
- FWCI
- 16.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Body Composition Measurement Techniques
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Statistics and Probability › Statistical Methods in Epidemiology
- Keywords
- body mass index for age, CDC growth charts, 99th percentile, overweight children, childhood obesity
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S., Child, Child, Preschool, Female, Growth, Humans, Male, Nutrition Surveys, Thinness, United States, Body Mass Index, Overweight, Young Adult
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