Assessment Tools for Weight and Health Related Risk

BMI CALCULATORS AND CHARTS

Calculates BMI and provides categories for assessing weight related risk
· http://www.swmed.edu/naa/bmi_calc.htm
· http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/bmi/bmi-adult.htm
· http://www.swmed.edu/naa/bmi_table.htm

HEALTH RISK

Calculate health risk associated with a given BMI
· http://www.swmed.edu/naa/bmi_healthrisk.htm

Wave Calculator: assess weight, activity, variety and excess in diet. Also provides recommendations.
· http://www.swmed.edu/naa/wave/wave.htm

WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE

Categorizes health risk based on waist circumference
· http://www.swmed.edu/naa/waist_circum.htm

CHOLESTEROL/LIPID LEVELS ASSESSMENT TOOLS

Classification and treatment guidelines for lipid abnormalities
· http://www.swmed.edu/naa/atpIII/chol_guide.htm

DIETARY ASSESSMENT TOOLS AND MEASURING GUIDES

Diet Analysis: Web based diet analysis tool
· http://www.nat.uiuc.edu/

Measuring guides for the dietary recall interview
· http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/nhanes/index.htm

Rate Your Plate: Questionnaire that helps you evaluate the quality of your diet
· http://hms.medweb.harvard.edu/nmw/hms_naa/plate.html

Portion size estimates: tricks to help eyeball hard-to-measure foods
· http://my.webmd.com/content/article/1671.50848

EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS

Fact sheets and information for health professionals, patients and the general public on a variety of nutrition related disease
· http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/index.htm

GROWTH CHARTS

Download CDC Growth Charts for many different age categories
· http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts/

MEDICAL CALCULATORS

MedMath is a freeware medical calculator for the Palm Computing® Platform. It is designed for rapid calculation of common equations used in adult internal medicine
· http://www.stanford.edu/%7Epmcheng/medmath/
· http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/clincalc.html

PALM RESOURCES

Provides information on drug dosing, interactions, adverse effects and contraindications for Palm OS.
· http://www.epocrates.com/products/epocratesRx4/

BMI calculator on Palm OS
· http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/bmi_palm.htm

OEI Treatment Guidelines Implementation Tool for Palm OS
Treat overweight and obesity according to the Clinical Guidelines on Overweight and Obesity in Adults with this free interactive program for use on Palm operating system devices.
· http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/obgdpalm.htm

Classification and treatment guidelines for lipid abnormalities for Palm OS
· http://hin.nhlbi.nih.gov/atpiii/atp3palm.htm