Open AccessValidity of the WHO cutoffs for biologically implausible values of weight, height, and BMI in children and adolescents in NHANES from 1999 through 2012
Author(s) -
David S. Freedman,
Hannah G. Lawman,
Asheley Cockrell Skinner,
Lisa C. McGuire,
David B. Allison,
Cynthia L. Ogden
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.3945/ajcn.115.115576
Subject(s) - percentile , waist , medicine , body mass index , demography , circumference , obesity , national health and nutrition examination survey , childhood obesity , anthropometry , cross sectional study , gerontology , pediatrics , overweight , population , statistics , mathematics , environmental health , pathology , sociology , geometry
The WHO cutoffs to classify biologically implausible values (BIVs) for weight, height, and weight-for-height in children and adolescents are widely used in data cleaning.
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