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bmiage

CDC BMI-for-age charts

Description

Charts giving the BMI-for-age percentiles for boys and girls ages 2-18

Usage

bmiage

Format

A data.table object with variables

Sex

'Male' or 'Female'

Agemos

Age in months

L, M, S

LMS parameters; see https://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/percentile_data_files.htm

P3, P5, P10, P25, P50, P75, P85, P90, P95, and P97

BMI percentiles

Details

For children ages 2 to 18, weight class depends on the BMI-for-age percentile.

Underweight

<5th percentile

Normal weight

5th-85th percentile

Overweight

85th-95th percentile

Obese

>=95th percentile

Author(s)

Caroline Ring

Source

References

Ring, Caroline L., et al. "Identifying populations sensitive to environmental chemicals by simulating toxicokinetic variability." Environment International 106 (2017): 105-118

httk

High-Throughput Toxicokinetics

v2.0.4
GPL-3
Authors
John Wambaugh [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4024-534X>), Robert Pearce [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3168-4049>), Caroline Ring [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0463-1251>), Greg Honda [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7713-9850>), Mark Sfeir [aut], Matt Linakis [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0526-2395>), Sarah Davidson [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2891-9380>), Miyuki Breen [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8511-4653>), Shannon Bell [ctb], Xiaoqing Chang [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0752-1848>), Jimena Davis [ctb], James Sluka [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5901-1404>), Nisha Sipes [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4203-6426>), Barbara Wetmore [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6878-5348>), Woodrow Setzer [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6709-9186>)
Initial release
2021-05-07

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