Revised 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 based on the supplemental data published by Gerhart et al: Gerhart, Jacqueline G., Fernando O. Carreño, Andrea N. Edginton, Jaydeep Sinha, Eliana M. Perrin, Karan R. Kumar, Aruna Rikhi, et al. “Development and Evaluation of a Virtual Population of Children with Obesity for Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling.” Clinical Pharmacokinetics 61, no. 2 (February 2022): 307–20. doi:10.1007/s40262-021-01072-4 . These data are in the same format as cdc_bmi but are derived from more recent NHANES data.