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ey0018.11-12 | Criticism of the previous BMI metrics for use in severely obese children | ESPEYB18

11.12. A longitudinal comparison of alternatives to body mass index Z-Scores for children with very high body mass indexes

DS Freedman , AJ Goodwin Davies , L Kompaniyets , SJ Lange , AB Goodman , T Tam Phan , FS Cole , A Dempsey , N Pajor , I Eneli , DA Christakis , CB Forrest

J Pediatr. 2021 Mar 5;S0022-3476(21)00211-0. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33676932/The authors analysed BMI data from 10.8 million children and adolescents from the PEDSnet database (USA), collected longitudinally between 1999-2019, to examine the tracking of various BMI metrics (BMIz, BMImz, BMIz extended, %BMIp95, %BMIp50,%BMIp50 adjusted| calculated according to CDC growth char...

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11.12. A longitudinal comparison of alternatives to body mass index Z-Scores for children with very high body mass indexes

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