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2000 CDC Growth Charts for the United States: methods and development.
- R. Kuczmarski, C. Ogden, +7 authors C. Johnson
- Medicine
- Vital and health statistics. Series 11, Data from…
- 1 May 2002
OBJECTIVES
This report provides detailed information on how the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts for the United States were developed, expanding upon the report… Expand
Physical growth: National Center for Health Statistics percentiles.
- P. Hamill, T. Drizd, C. Johnson, R. B. Reed, A. Roche, W. Moore
- Medicine
- The American journal of clinical nutrition
- 1 March 1979
Anthropometry is an effective and frequently performed child health and nutrition screening procedure. The value of physical growth data depends on their accuracy and reliability, how they are… Expand
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts for the United States: improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics version.
- C. Ogden, R. Kuczmarski, +7 authors C. Johnson
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- 2002
OBJECTIVE
To present a clinical version of the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts and to compare them with the previous version, the 1977 National Center for Health… Expand
Worldwide Variation in Human Growth
- A. Roche
- Medicine
- 1 April 1978
This is a very large compilation of growth data with an extremely wide coverage of population groups, many of which will be completely unknown to all but the professional ethnographer. There is,… Expand
National estimates of the timing of sexual maturation and racial differences among US children.
- S. Sun, C. Schubert, +5 authors A. S. Ryan
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- 1 November 2002
OBJECTIVE
To provide clinically meaningful, normative reference data that describe the timing of sexual maturity indicators among a national sample of US children and to determine the degree of… Expand
Age at menarche and racial comparisons in US girls.
- W. Chumlea, C. Schubert, +4 authors S. Sun
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- 2003
BACKGROUND
Concern regarding change in the onset of sexual maturation of US girls has increased the need for current information on age at menarche from a national sample. Previous reports have been… Expand
Estimating Stature from Knee Height for Persons 60 to 90 Years of Age
- W. Chumlea, A. Roche, M. Steinbaugh
- Medicine
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- 1 February 1985
Stature is an important variable in several indices of nutritional status that are applicable to elderly persons. However, stature is difficult or impossible to measure in the nonambulatory elderly… Expand
Predicting adult stature without using skeletal age: the Khamis-Roche method.
- Harry J. Khamis, A. Roche
- Medicine
- Pediatrics
- 1 October 1994
STUDY OBJECTIVE
To obtain reliable and accurate predictions of adult stature in white American children who are free of disease without using skeletal age.
DESIGN
Apply a modification of the… Expand
Predicting overweight and obesity in adulthood from body mass index values in childhood and adolescence.
- S. Guo, W. Wu, W. Chumlea, A. Roche
- Medicine
- The American journal of clinical nutrition
- 1 September 2002
BACKGROUND
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) introduced the clinical use of the body mass index (BMI; in kg/m(2)) in growth charts for young males and females.
OBJECTIVE
This… Expand
NCHS growth curves for children birth-18 years. United States.
- P. Hamill, T. Drizd, C. Johnson, R. B. Reed, A. Roche
- Medicine
- Vital and health statistics. Series 11, Data from…
- 1 November 1977
Abstract : In 1974 the National Academy of Sciences' urged that new growth charts for infants and children be prepared using current data for the nutritional assessment of populations of infants and… Expand