A subset of mid-upper arm circumference data from study conducted to create MUAC-for-age z-scores

A subset of mid-upper arm circumference data from study conducted to create MUAC-for-age z-scores

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Format

A data.frame with 257 observations and 4 variables

Variable	Definition
pk_serial	Unique identifier
muac	Mid-upper arm circumference in centimetres
agemons	Age in months
sex	Sex; 1 = Male; 2 = Female

Source

Mramba Lazarus, Ngari Moses, Mwangome Martha, Muchai Lilian, Bauni Evasius, Walker A Sarah et al. A growth reference for mid upper arm circumference for age among school age children and adolescents, and validation for mortality: growth curve construction and longitudinal cohort study BMJ 2017; 358 :j3423 https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.j3423

Examples

head(anthro4)
#>   pk_serial muac   agemons sex
#> 1     76220 16.0  73.23203   2
#> 2     76290 18.4  93.63450   1
#> 3     76310 14.4  75.69610   1
#> 4     76460 15.4  87.16222   2
#> 5     76570 18.0 139.69611   1
#> 6     76580 18.0 119.81931   2