Growth charts for 0-18 year old children and adolescents

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 112-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmet Öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Growth Charts

Promoting Optimal Monitoring of Child Growth in Canada: Using the New WHO Growth Charts

2010 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. e1-e3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
Family Physicians ◽  
Optimal Growth ◽  
Growth Charts ◽  
Sample Population ◽  
Growth Monitoring ◽  
Paediatric Society ◽  
International Growth ◽  
Community Health Nurses

Growth monitoring and promotion of optimal growth are essential components of primary health care for infants, children and adolescents. Growth monitoring includes serial measurements of weight, length or height for all children, head circumference for infants and toddlers, and interpretation of those measurements relative to the growth of a large sample population of children depicted on a selected growth chart. These measures help to confirm a child's healthy growth and development, or identify early a potential nutritional or health problem. This enables health professionals and parents to initiate action before the child's nutritional status or health are seriously compromised. Over the last three decades there has been substantial discussion on which reference population to use in assessing adequacy of childhood growth. In 2004, Dietitians of Canada, Canadian Paediatric Society, The College of Family Physicians of Canada and Community Health Nurses of Canada published recommendations for use of the 2000 American growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At that time, limitations of the charts were noted, including the fact that these charts were growth references, describing how a sample population of children grew, regardless of whether or not their rate of growth was optimal or not. It was also noted that the decision on which growth charts to recommend would be revisited as more appropriate data became available. Increasing evidence that growth patterns of well-fed healthy preschool children from diverse ethnic backgrounds were comparable, supported the use of a single international growth reference based on healthy, wellnourished children from different geographic and genetic origins, who had fully met their growth potential. Until recently, no such growth charts existed. In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO), in conjunction with the United Nations Children's Fund and others, released new international growth charts depicting the growth of children from birth to age five years, who had been raised in six different countries (Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman, USA) according to recommended nutritional and health practices, including exclusive breastfeeding for the first four to six months of life. The optimal growth displayed in the WHO growth charts for infants and preschool children represents the prescribed gold standard for children's growth; hence these charts are considered growth standards. In 2007, the WHO also released charts for monitoring the growth of older children and adolescents that had been updated and improved to address the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. Dietitians of Canada, Canadian Paediatric Society, The College of Family Physicians of Canada, and Community Health Nurses of Canada make the following recommendations, intended as a practice guideline for medical practitioners and other health professionals. The desired outcome is that wide dissemination of these recommendations will promote consistent practices in monitoring growth to improve the nutritional status and health outcomes of Canadian infants, children and adolescents.

scholarly journals Comparison between the growth of Brazilian children and adolescents and the reference growth charts: data from a Brazilian Project

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (5) ◽  
pp. 504-504
Author(s):  
Diego Augusto Santos Silva ◽  
Andreia Pelegrini ◽  
Edio Luiz Petroski ◽  
Adroaldo Cesar Araujo Gaya
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Growth Charts ◽  
Brazilian Children

scholarly journals Comparison of the 2005 growth charts for Saudi children and adolescents to the 2000 CDC growth charts

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 334-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad I. El Mouzan ◽  
Abdullah S. Al Herbish ◽  
Abdullah A. Al Salloum ◽  
Peter J. Foster ◽  
Ahmad A. Al Omar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Growth Charts

New diagnostic criteria for obesity and overweight in Korean children and adolescents using 2007 Korean National Growth Charts

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. e182-e189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Young Seo ◽  
Young-Gyu Cho ◽  
Jae-Heon Kang ◽  
Yang-Im Hur ◽  
Hyun-Ah Park ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Diagnostic Criteria ◽  
Growth Charts ◽  
Korean Children ◽  
Obesity And Overweight ◽  
National Growth

scholarly journals Comparison of the 2005 growth charts for Saudi children and adolescents to the 2000 CDC growth charts

2008 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 334 ◽  
Author(s):  
MohammadI El Mouzan ◽  
AbdullahS Al Herbish ◽  
AbdullahA Al Salloum ◽  
PeterJ Foster ◽  
AhmadA Al Omar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Growth Charts

scholarly journals First Ukrainian Growth References for Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index for Children and Adolescents Aged 7 to 18 Years

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Serhiy Nyankovskyy ◽  
Katarzyna Dereń ◽  
Justyna Wyszyńska ◽  
Olena Nyankovska ◽  
Edyta Łuszczki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Body Mass Index ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Body Mass ◽  
Pediatric Population ◽  
World Health ◽  
Growth Charts ◽  
Clinical Tool ◽  
National Implementation ◽  
Growth References ◽  
Health Organization

Introduction. To date, growth centiles of children and adolescents have not been created in Ukraine. Therefore, the aim of this study was to construct reference growth charts for height, weight, and body mass index (BMI) of Ukrainian school-aged children and to compare them with World Health Organization references from 2007 for children’s BMI. Material and Methods. Among the representative sample of 13,712 students (aged 7 to 18 years) who were included in this study, 6,582 (48%) were boys and 7,130 (52%) were girls. Assessments of height, body mass, and BMI of participants were performed. Reference charts were developed using LMS models within the ChartMaker lms program. Results. We present first growth references for height, weight, and body mass index for Ukrainian children and adolescents aged 7 to 18 years. The younger Ukrainian pediatric population (7-13 years) was heavier than population reported in the multiethnic WHO references, while the older (13-18 years) had lower body weight comparing to the same references from WHO. Conclusions. The constructed reference growth charts are a benchmark for following secular trends in Ukraine and are also an optimal clinical tool for health care. We recommend national implementation of the Ukrainian reference growth charts for anthropometric measurements.

scholarly journals The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jae Hyun Kim ◽  
Sungha Yun ◽  
Seung-sik Hwang ◽  
Jung Ok Shim ◽  
Hyun Wook Chae ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Growth Charts ◽  
National Growth
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