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- CDC Growth Charts 2000 Slide Set
- Use and Interpretation of the CDC Growth Charts
- Tools to Calculate BMI
- Software Tools
CDC Growth Charts 2000 Slide
Set
This PowerPoint slide presentation, CDC Growth Charts 2000, was
developed by the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity to provide
training to health care professionals at national and state meetings. The
presentation focuses on the 1) rationale for revising the growth charts,
and 2) the BMI-for-age charts including advantages of using these charts
and calculating BMI.
This set of 47 PowerPoint slides provides an overview of the 2000 CDC growth charts including background information on the rationale for changes in the revised charts and using and interpreting the body mass index (BMI)-for-age charts. Notes are provided for each slide. This material can be used as a training presentation for groups or individuals working with a pediatric population.
These slides may be used as is, please do not alter format. If format is altered the CDC logo must be removed.
Download the Microsoft PowerPoint Document (PPT - 2.45Mb).
Hint:
To save the Microsoft PowerPoint document file to your computer, right click your mouse on the link above and select the save option.
Approximate download times:
- 14.4K – 24 minutes
- 28.8K – 13 minutes
- 56K – 7 minutes
- ISDN or faster – 2 minutes
Use
and Interpretation of the CDC Growth Charts - An
Instructional Guide
(PDF
- 67K)
This guide instructs health care providers on how to use and interpret the
CDC Growth Charts to assess physical growth in children and adolescents.
Using these charts, health care providers can compare growth in infants,
children, and adolescents with a nationally representative reference based
on children of all ages and racial or ethnic groups. Comparing body
measurements with the appropriate age- and gender-specific growth chart
enables health care providers to monitor growth and identify potential
health- or nutrition-related problems.
Tools to Calculate BMI
BMI
Percentile Calculator for Child and Teen
Provided in both English and Metric versions.
Clinical Growth Charts
National Center for Health Statistics has growth charts in several
formats, or use the following documents:
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CDC Table for Calculated Body
Mass Index Values for Selected Heights and Weights for Ages 2 to 20 Years
(PDF-168K)
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Checkbook size BMI Table for
Children and Adolescents(PDF-404K)
Software Tools
ANTHRO
This is a software application for calculating pediatric anthropometry,
based on the 1978 NCHS/CDC/WHO growth reference.
Epi Info
This is a software application that offers a word processing,
database, and statistics system for epidemiology on microcomputers.
One of the key features of Epi Info 2002 is NutStat, a nutrition
anthropometry program that calculates percentiles and z-scores using
either the 2000 CDC or the 1978 CDC/WHO growth reference.
A SAS Program for the CDC Growth Charts
The purpose of this SAS program is to easily generate a dataset that
contains indices of the anthropometric status of children from birth to 20
years of age based on the 2000 CDC growth charts.
Please note: Some of these publications are available for download only as *.pdf files. These files require Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to be viewed. Please review the information on downloading and using Acrobat Reader software.
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Page last updated: May 21, 2008
Content Source: Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion