Measurement and long-term health risks of child and adolescent fatness

C Power, JK Lake, TJ Cole - International journal of obesity, 1997 - nature.com
This paper reviews child and adolescent adiposity measures and associated long-term
health risks. The first section argues that anthropometric measures are practical for large …

[HTML][HTML] Patterns of stunting and wasting: potential explanatory factors

R Martorell, MF Young - Advances in nutrition, 2012 - Elsevier
We investigated the causes of stunting and wasting using nationally representative data on
preschool children from India (2005–2006, N= 41,306) and Guatemala (2008–2009, N …

Prevalence thresholds for wasting, overweight and stunting in children under 5 years

M De Onis, E Borghi, M Arimond, P Webb… - Public health …, 2019 - cambridge.org
ObjectivePrevalence ranges to classify levels of wasting and stunting have been used since
the 1990s for global monitoring of malnutrition. Recent developments prompted a re …

[HTML][HTML] Global, regional and national epidemiology and prevalence of child stunting, wasting and underweight in low-and middle-income countries, 2006–2018

P Ssentongo, AE Ssentongo, DM Ba, JE Ericson… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
In 2016, undernutrition, as manifested in childhood stunting, wasting, and underweight were
estimated to cause over 1.0 million deaths, 3.9% of years of life lost, and 3.8% of disability …

[HTML][HTML] Children who are both wasted and stunted are also underweight and have a high risk of death: a descriptive epidemiology of multiple anthropometric deficits …

M Myatt, T Khara, S Schoenbuchner, S Pietzsch… - Archives of Public …, 2018 - Springer
Background Wasting and stunting are common. They are implicated in the deaths of almost
two million children each year and account for over 12% of disability-adjusted life years lost …

[PDF][PDF] Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents

M Onis, AW Onyango, E Borghi… - Bulletin of the World …, 2007 - SciELO Public Health
OBJECTIVE: To construct growth curves for school-aged children and adolescents that
accord with the WHO Child Growth Standards for preschool children and the body mass …

[图书][B] CDC growth charts: United States

RJ Kuczmarski - 2000 - books.google.com
Objectives-This report presents the revised growth charts for the United States. It
summarizes the history of the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth …

[图书][B] 2000 CDC growth charts for the United States: methods and development

RJ Kuczmarski - 2002 - books.google.com
Results Observed and Smoothed Percentiles Evaluation of the Revised Growth Curves
Differences Between the 1977 NCHS and the 2000 CDC Growth Curves Discussion …

The LMS method for constructing normalized growth standards.

TJ Cole - European journal of clinical nutrition, 1990 - europepmc.org
It is now common practice to express child growth status in the form of SD scores. The LMS
method provides a way of obtaining normalized growth centile standards which simplifies …

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts for the United States: improvements to the 1977 National Center for Health Statistics version

CL Ogden, RJ Kuczmarski, KM Flegal, Z Mei… - …, 2002 - publications.aap.org
Objective. To present a clinical version of the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) growth charts and to compare them with the previous version, the 1977 …