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WHO child growth standards : growth velocity based on weight, length and head circumference : methods and development.
- Title
- WHO child growth standards : growth velocity based on weight, length and head circumference : methods and development.
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- Additional Authors
- World Health Organization. Nutrition for Health and Development.
- Description
- xix, 242 p. : ill.; 30 cm.
- Summary
- The WHO Multicenter Growth Reference Study (MGRS) collected primary growth data and related information from 8440 healthy breastfed infants and young children from diverse ethnic backgrounds and cultural settings (Brazil, Ghana, India, Norway, Oman and USA). A key component of the MGRS design was a longitudinal cohort of children who were examined in a sequence of 21 visits starting at birth and ending at 24 months of age. A principal rationale for the longitudinal component was to allow for the development of growth velocity standards. The increments on which the velocity standards are based were calculated using the same longitudinal sample of 882 children and statistical approaches as those used in the construction of the attained growth standards. The velocity standards presented in this report provide a set of tools for monitoring the rapid and changing rate of growth in early childhood and can be used to assess children everywhere, regardless of ethnicity, socioeconomic status and type of feeding.--Publisher's description.
- Alternative Title
- Growth velocity based on weight, length and head circumference
- World Health Organization child growth standards
- Subject
- ISBN
- 9241547634
- 9789241547635
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries