Anthropometric Per-Centiles

Centiles for adult head circumference.

Reference range for head circumference on the Tanner charts do not go beyond age 16. In this study the head circumference and heights of 354 adults in two British centres were measured. The centile charts constructed from these measurements show that adult head circumference is related to height. The mean head circumference of a male of average height is above the 97th centile for a 16 year old...

Blood pressure centiles for Great Britain

OBJECTIVE To produce representative cross-sectional blood pressure reference centiles for children and young people living in Great Britain. DESIGN Analysis of blood pressure data from seven nationally representative surveys: Health Surveys for England 1995-8, Scottish Health Surveys 1995 and 1998, and National Diet & Nutrition Survey 1997. METHODS Blood pressure was measured using the Dina...

Quartiles, quintiles, centiles, and other quantiles.

Re: Customised birthweight centiles predict SGA pregnancies with perinatal morbidity.

OBJECTIVES To determine the following: (1) the proportion of babies reclassified as small or appropriately grown using customized and population centiles; and (2) the relative risks of perinatal morbidity, including abnormal umbilical Doppler studies, in babies classified as small for gestational age (SGA) and appropriate for gestational age (non-SGA) using the two centile calculations. DESIG...

Age-specific population centiles for androgen status in men.

AIM The age-specific population profiles in men of circulating testosterone and its two bioactive metabolites dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and estradiol (E2) across the adult lifespan and its determinants are not well described. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to deduce smoothed age-specific centiles of circulating testosterone, DHT, and E2 in men using pooled data from population-based studies in t...