Physical growth: National Center for Health Statistics percentiles

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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.

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Title: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)

ISSN (Print): 0002-9165

ISSN (Electronic): 1938-3207

Publication date Created: March 1979

Publication date Created: March 01 1979

Publication date Other: March 1979

Publication date (Print): March 01 1979

Volume: 32

Issue: 3

Pages: 607-629

Affiliations

[1 ] From the Division of Health Examination Statistics, National Center for Health Statistics.

[2 ] Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

[3 ] Senior Scientist, the Fels Research Institute Yellow Springs, Ohio.

[4 ] Director of Medical Services, Ross Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio.

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DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/32.3.607

PubMed ID: 420153

SO-VID: cc195097-54e2-4271-8d35-2ae10536e273

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