Journal
PEDIATRICS
Volume 130, Issue 6, Pages 1136-1140Publisher
AMER ACAD PEDIATRICS
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-0596
Keywords
severe obesity; z-score; BMI; LMS method; growth chart; percentage of the 95th percentile
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- Merck
- QLT
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The 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts are unable to accurately define and display BMI percentiles beyond the 97th percentile. At Children's Hospital Colorado, we created new growth charts that allow clinicians to track and visualize BMI values in severely obese children. This growth chart defines a child's BMI as a percentage of the 95th percentile. It has the potential to allow clinicians to define subgroups of severe obesity, monitor trends in obese children, and measure treatment success or failure. Pediatrics 2012;130:1136-1140
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