pediatric.zcalc - Z-Score Calculator for Biomarkers: Childhood to Young Adulthood
Provides tools to compute individual percentile ranks and
z-scores for clinical biomarkers in children, adolescents and
young adults, based on age-, sex-, and height-specific
reference data from the IDEFICS (Identification and prevention
of Dietary and lifestyle-induced health EFfects In Children and
infantS) study and the Biomarkers4Pediatrics collaboration.
Supports the computation of a composite Metabolic Syndrome
(MetS) score and associated monitoring/action levels for health
monitoring. For more details see Ahrens et al. (2014)
<doi:10.1038/ijo.2014.130>.