CDC GROWTH CHARTS FOR THE UNITED STATES: METHODS AND DEVELOPMENT 2000

By R. Kuczmarski, Cynthia L Ogden, Shumei S. Guo, L. Strawn, K. Flegal, Z. Mei. 2002

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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, 1999-2004. (2006, methodology): “Among children and adolescents aged 2 to 19 years, overweight and at risk for overweight were defined based on the sex-specific BMI for age growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.(7) The CDC growth charts were created from national data in the United States collected from ”
Screening for Obesity in Children and Adolescents: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement (2017, methodology): “charts, such as those developed by the CDC, which are based on US-specific, population-based norms for children 2 years and older.(10) Obesity is defined as an age- and sex-specific BMI in the 95th percentile or greater.”
WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age (2006, background): “NHANES III) for children aged ]/6 y from the revised weight and BMI growth charts [33].”
Exposure of the U.S. Population to Bisphenol A and 4-tertiary-Octylphenol: 2003–2004 (2007, methodology): “For children and teens, body mass index (BMI) is both age- and sex-specific, and instead of BMI we used BMI-for-age percentile (BMIPCT), calculated on the basis of a BMIfor-age growth chart for persons 2–19 years of age (Kuczmarski et al. 2002).”
Evidence of brain overgrowth in the first year of life in autism. (2003, methodology): “To establish at what ages HC in infants with ASD differs from that in healthy infants, we compared our HC measurements of children with ASD to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts of the United States.20 To determine how often healthy developing infants show extreme gro”
A systematic review and meta-analysis to revise the Fenton growth chart for preterm infants (2013, unknown): “The weight shifts after 40 weeks were upward for both sexes, due to the higher values for the WHOGS compared to the CDC growth reference [59] at 10 weeks post term.”
A new growth chart for preterm babies: Babson and Benda's chart updated with recent data and a new format (2003, methodology): “Once an infant surpasses 50 weeks, the regular CDC growth charts could be used, with continued adjustment for prematurity.”
Childhood obesity: a review of increased risk for physical and psychological comorbidities. (2013, methodology): “BMI scores can be converted nto standardized scores (zBMI) to conduct comparions among groups.(14) Ethnic minority children are at n increased risk for obesity.”
Prevalence of overweight and obesity among US children, adolescents, and adults, 1999-2002. (2004, methodology): “tional data from 1963 to 1994.(6) At risk for overweight was defined as at or above the 85th percentile but less than the 95th percentile of the sex-specific BMI for age, as defined by the growth chart.”
Prevalence of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders in 4 US Communities (2018, methodology): “In sampling method 1, J = 3 for both full and partial fetal alcohol syndrome, and the subpopulations were (1) small (ie,weight, height, or head circumference ≤25thpercentile), (2) not small, and (3) twin or referral.”
Severe Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Identification, Associated Health Risks, and Treatment Approaches A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association (2013, methodology): “More recently, Flegal et al(5) have proposed an alternative method by which to calculate extreme values of BMI based on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference growth charts for the United States, which include smoothed percentiles only up to the 97th percentile(35); BMI percentiles”