Standardizing anthropometric measures in children and adolescents with new functions for egen
Suzanna Vidmar
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit and
Centre for Community Child Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and
University of Melbourne Department of Pediatrics
Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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John Carlin
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit and
Centre for Community Child Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and
University of Melbourne Department of Pediatrics
Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Kylie Hesketh
Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics Unit and
Centre for Community Child Health
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute and
University of Melbourne Department of Pediatrics
Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia
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Tim Cole
Centre for Pediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Institute of Child Health
London, UK
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Abstract.
A new function for egen has been developed to allow transformation of
child anthropometric data to z-scores using the LMS method and the
reference data available from the 1990 British Growth Reference and the 2000
US CDC Growth Reference. An additional function allows for children to be
categorized according to body mass index (weight/height2) using
international cutoff points recommended by the Childhood Obesity Working
Group of the International Obesity Taskforce.
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