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Joel D. Selanikio, Teresa M. Kemmer, Maria Bovill, and Karen Geisler Journal of Medical Systems, Vol. 26, No. 2, April 2002
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Anthropometry indicators are a measure of the health and developmental status of children based on the child's age, sex, height and weight. ANTHRO software can be used by health professionals to compare the growth of individual children with the growth patterns of a large reference population of the same age and sex.
ANTHRO is based on the 1978 NCHS/CDC/WHO growth reference. It requires the sex, height, weight, and age of children to calculate normalized anthropometric z-values, percentiles and percent-of-median. It can use dBase files for batch processing and has an anthropometric calculator.
Center for Disease Control 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 (http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/). This program uses an existing SAS dataset with height, weight, sex and age data on children. It is intended to be easy to use for someone with basic SAS programming skills.
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