Background It is unclear whether maternal vitamin D supplementation during pregnancy and
lactation improves fetal and infant growth in regions where vitamin D deficiency is common …

Background Self-reported pre-pregnancy weight and weight measured in the first trimester
are both used to estimate pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) and gestational weight gain …

Background Expressing anthropometric parameters (height, weight, BMI) as z-score is a key
principle in the clinical assessment of children and adolescents. The Centre for Disease …

Abstract Purpose of Review We sought to (1) examine common sources of measurement
error in research using data from electronic medical records (EMR),(2) discuss methods to …

Tracking trajectories of body size in children provides insight into chronic disease risk. One
measure of pediatric body size is body mass index (BMI), a function of height and weight …

Context Poor anthropometric data quality affect the prevalence of malnutrition and could
harm public policy planning. Objective This systematic review and meta-analysis was …

All data are prone to error and require data cleaning prior to analysis. An important example
is longitudinal growth data, for which there are no universally agreed standard methods for …

Growth faltering in early childhood is prevalent in many low resource countries. Poor
maternal dietary diversity during pregnancy has been linked with increased risk of fetal …

Abstract 'Big data'in healthcare encompass measurements collated from multiple sources
with various degrees of data quality. These data require quality control assessment to …

Objective (s) To estimate nutritional status in a large cohort of infants with orofacial clefts in
the US, overall and by cleft type from birth to 6 months of age. Study design We conducted a …