Physical growth: National Center for Health Statistics percentiles
Open Access
- 1 March 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 32 (3), 607-629
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcn/32.3.607
Abstract
Anthropometry is an effective and frequently performed child health and nutrition screening procedure. The value of physical growth data depends on their accuracy and reliability, how they are recorded and interpreted, and what follow-up efforts are made after identification of growth abnormality. The new National Center for Health Statistics percentiles can be used to improve identification of potential health and nutritional problems and to facilitate the epidemological comparison of one group of children with others.Keywords
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