The development of an international growth standard for the screening, surveillance, and
monitoring of school-aged children and adolescents has been motivated by 2 …

Since the 1970s, the World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the use of the
growth references developed by the United States National Center for Health Statistics …

The rationale for developing a new international growth reference derived principally from a
Working Group on infant growth established by the World Health Organization (WHO) in …

Abstract In 2006 and 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) released two sets of child
growth standards (World Health Organization, WHO Child Growth Standards. Methods and …

New childhood growth percentiles have been published recently by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, and are designed to replace the widely used 7977 National Center …

This review has two aims. The first is to identify important environmental influences on the
growth of children aged 1 to 9 years and of adolescents, defined as those aged 10 to 19 …

The National Center for Health Statistics growth reference, recommended by the World
Health Organization for international use since the late 1970s, has served many useful …

Growth references for children are among the most widely used instruments in public health
and clinical medicine. A comprehensive review by the World Health Organization (WHO) of …

Growth charts are an essential component of the paediatric toolkit. Their value resides in
helping to determine the degree to which physiological needs for growth and development …

Aim: To describe the methods used to construct the WHO Child Growth Standards based on
length/height, weight and age, and to present resulting growth charts. Methods: The WHO …