Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 Growth Charts for the United States: Improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics Version

L. Ogden, Cynthia; J. Kuczmarski, Robert; M. Flegal, Katherine; Mei, Zuguo; Guo, Shumei; Wei, Rong; M. Grummer‐Strawn, Laurence; R. Curtin, Lester; F. Roche, Alex; L. Johnson, Clifford

doi:10.1542/peds.109.1.45

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 Growth Charts for the United States: Improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics Version

Published in PEDIATRICS • Jan 1, 2002

Authors:

Cynthia L. Ogden

Robert J. Kuczmarski

Katherine M. Flegal

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To present a clinical version of the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts and to compare them with the previous version, the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth charts. METHODS: The 2000 CDC percentile curves were developed in 2 stages. ...

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Percentile

Medicine

Health statistics

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