Depending on the goal for the information, you may want to consider using BMI (Body Mass Index) for persons over age 18. Wikipedia has an article on BMI, and there are several calculators available.
Yes, and thank you for your effort. Actually we asked some professor, and searched for literatures. There is quite a few of using z score in evaluating CF adults. It is a hard question.
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On the question whether it's reasonable or not, it's hard for me to say - I'm not a statistician or nutritionist, and so I'd probably end up giving you incorrect information. I'll ask around and see if I can get a better response for you…
Thanks for your reply. Currently we have a clinical trial for Cystic Fibrosis and weight-for-age z score is a secondary endpoint. The subjects we recruited are not limited to 240 months?
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The Nutrition program will only calculate scores up to 18 years of age. It is not designed for calculating measurements for adults. The reference data used to calculate the z-scores and percentiles is based off either the CDC 2000 or WHO…