Epi Info comes (www.cdc.gov/epiinfo) with a program called Nutstat, which
calculates BMI percentiles for age based on CDC growth curves. It can take a
dataset in MS Access format, do the calculations required, and save the new
variables back into the MS Access database (which, of course, you can
convert to Stata format). I probably cannot answer very detailed questions
on this process because I didn't do this work myself, but a member of my
team did it recently with a perinatal survey we conducted, and it worked
perfectly.
Regards,
Lee
Lee Sieswerda, Epidemiologist
Thunder Bay District Health Unit
[email protected]
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rogge, Mary M [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 11:46 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: body mass index
>
>
> I am attempting to analyze an NIH data set for prenatal
> factors related to child overweight status at age 7 years.
> Does anyone have a Stata program that calculates the BMI from
> height and weight and gives the BMI percentile for age?
> Thanks! Mary Rogge
> Indiana University School of Nursing
>
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> * http://www.stata.com/support/statalist/faq
> * http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
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* http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/stata/
