作者
Vaman Khadilkar, Sangeeta Yadav, KK Agrawal, Suchit Tamboli, Monidipa Banerjee, Alice Cherian, Jagdish P Goyal, Anuradha Khadilkar, V Kumaravel, V Mohan, D Narayanappa, I Ray, Vijay Yewale
发表日期
2015/1
期刊
Indian pediatrics
卷号
52
页码范围
47-55
出版商
Springer India
简介
Justification
The need to revise Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) growth charts for 5- to 18-year-old Indian children and adolescents was felt as India is in nutrition transition and previous IAP charts are based on data which are over two decades old.
Process
The Growth Chart Committee was formed by IAP in January 2014 to design revised growth charts. Consultative meeting was held in November 2014 in Mumbai. Studies performed on Indian children’s growth, nutritional assessment and anthropometry from upper and middle socioeconomic classes in last decade were identified. Committee contacted 13 study groups; total number of children in the age group of 5 to 18 years were 87022 (54086 boys). Data from fourteen cities (Agartala, Ahmadabad, Chandigarh, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Madurai, Mumbai, Mysore, Pune, Raipur …
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