This analysis of data on 26,480 children and adolescents taken as part of the NHANES study from 1999–2000 through 2011–2012 showed that the overall prevalence of children with biologically implausible body measurements (determined commonly accepted rules involving modified z scores) was 0.9%. Most of these were high values rather than low. Further analysis that correlated these BIVs with other body measurements suggested that the majority of these seemingly anomalous values were accurate. Using these methods to exclude BIVs tends to underestimate the prevalence of obesity in these data.
Am J Clin Nutr. 2015 Nov; 102(5): 1000–1006.
Freedman 2015 (Link) | PubMed 26377160 | Author Search
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