Characterizing extreme values of body mass index–for-age by using the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts
- 1 November 2009
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 90 (5), 1314-1320
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2009.28335
Abstract
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.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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