Centers for Disease Control Pediatric and Adolescent BMI Table
Format
A data frame with the following 9 columns: Sex (1 = male), Agemos; L, M, S (coefficients for calculating z-scores), P3, P5, P10, P25, P50, P75, P85, P90, P95, P97: age and sex specific BMI percentiles
Details
Coefficients to calculate sex-specific BMI z-scores and percentiles. Downloaded from . Tables were last updated in 2000, based on data through 1994. Definitions of overweight and obese come from these data, based on BMI percentile >=85 for overweight and >=95 for obese. See ger_bmi for percentiles based on more modern NHANES data.