Clinical Tracking of Severely Obese Children: A New Growth Chart
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Clinical tracking of severely obese children: a new growth chart.
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 pote...
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عنوان ژورنال: PEDIATRICS
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0031-4005,1098-4275
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-0596