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CDC Growth Charts PowerPoint Presentation

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Speaker Notes

This graph shows the considerable increase in the prevalence of overweight in NHANES III (green bar) for boys and girls ages 6 to 11 and 12 to 19 when compared to NHANES I (purple bar) and II (white bar). If data from NHANES III had been included, the resulting 95th percentile curve would have been higher. Consequently, weight data for children 6 years and older were excluded.

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Age-Adjusted Prevalence of Overweight1 From NHANES I to III2

Image: A line graph labeled "Age-Adjusted Prevalence of Overweight1 From NHANES I to III"2 is displayed.  This graph illustrates the differences in prevalence described in the speaker notes using the measurements listed below.

  Boys 6–11 years Boys 12–17 years Girls 6–11 years Girls 12–17 years
NHANES I 7% 5% 4% 7%
NHANES II 8% 5% 7% 6%
NHANES III 11% 13% 11% 9%

1>95th percentile BMI-for-age
2 http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/overwght99.htm


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