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Growth Charts (growth + chart)

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Intrauterine growth standards in a developing country: a study of singleton livebirths at 28,42 weeks' gestation

PAEDIATRIC & PERINATAL EPIDEMIOLOGY, Issue 5 2007
Khalid A. Yunis
Summary This study aimed to develop fetal growth charts for the population of Greater Beirut, Lebanon, and compare them with previously established references. A survey of consecutive singleton livebirths admitted to normal nurseries and neonatal intensive care units of major hospitals, through the database project of the National Collaborative Perinatal Neonatal Network was used as a design. The study was conducted in nine major healthcare institutions serving the population of Beirut and its suburbs. A total of 24 767 singleton livebirths delivered between 28 and 42 weeks' gestation, with known data on gender, gestational age and anthropometric characteristics were recorded between 1 April 1999 and 31 March 2002. Growth charts were developed by plotting birthweight, length and head circumference percentiles against gestational age for male and female infants separately. Overall, 1348 (5.4%) pregnancies were delivered before 37 weeks' gestation and 1227 (4.9%) were low birthweight. Male infants were delivered slightly earlier than their female counterparts and the mean birthweight, length and head circumference were consistently higher in males. A total of 2247 (9.1%) infants were small-for-gestational-age, with a male-to-female sex ratio of 1.03. Using previously established growth references that overestimated small-for-gestational-age prevalence resulted in a greater proportion of false positives. The opposite was true for growth references that underestimated small-for-gestational-age prevalence. The current growth charts present useful tools for assessing the general health status of newborn infants delivered at sea level in the urban areas of Lebanon and other East Mediterranean countries. [source]

Children's growth: A health indicator and a diagnostic tool

ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 5 2006
Lars Gelander
Abstract The publication of Werner and Bodin in Acta Paediatrica should inspire countries to use the growth of children as an indicator of health. The development of databases that cover all measurements of all children that have contact with healthcare and medical care will provide new knowledge in this area. Such databases will give us the opportunity to explore health in different areas of the country and to evaluate community projects in order to prevent obesity. Conclusion: Growth charts that are used to identify sick children or children that have other causes for growth disturbances must reflect how a healthy child should grow. If such prescriptive growth charts are computerized together with regional databases, they will provide necessary growth data for descriptive health surveys. [source]

Growth charts for breastfed babies

ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 12 2002
AF Williams
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

New reference for the age at childhood onset of growth and secular trend in the timing of puberty in Swedish

ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 6 2000
YX Liu
The objectives of the present work were to present a new reference for the age at childhood onset of growth and to investigate the secular trend in the timing of puberty in a community-based normal population in Sweden. A total of 2432 children with longitudinal length/height data from birth to adulthood were used to determine the two measures by visual inspection of the measured attained length/height and the change in growth velocity displayed on a computer-generated infancy-childhood-puberty (ICP) based growth chart. The series represents a sample of normal full-term children born around 1974 in Göteborg, Sweden. We found about 10% of children were delayed (>12 mo of age) in the childhood onset of growth based on the previous reported normal range, i.e. 14% in boys and 8% in girls. Distribution of the age at childhood onset of growth was skewed. The medians were 10 and 9 mo for boys and girls, respectively. After natural logarithmic transformation, the mean and standard deviation (SD) were 2.29 (anti-log 9.9 mo) and 0.226 for boys, 2.23 (anti-log 9.3 mo) and 0.220 for girls, respectively. The 95% normal ranges were 6.3-15.4 and 6.0-14.3 for boys and girls, respectively. The distribution of the timing of PHV was close to the normal distribution. The mean values were 13.5 y for boys and 11.6 y for girls with 1 y SD for both sexes. Conclusion: A downward secular trend in the onset of puberty was clearly shown in the population. The age at childhood onset of growth did not correlate with the timing of puberty (r=,0.01 and 0.05, p > 0.7 and 0.1 in boys and girls, respectively). Normal ranges of the age at childhood onset of growth are in need of revise, as this study indicates. The new reference presented here could be a reliable indicator in further studies. [source]

Accuracy of reported weight and menstrual status in teenage girls with eating disorders

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS, Issue 4 2005
Ingemar Swenne MD
Abstract Objective The current study investigated the accuracy of reported current and historical weights and of menstrual status in teenage girls with eating disorders. Method Reported current weight in one interview was compared with measured weight at another occasion. Reported historical weights were compared with documented weights from growth charts of the school health services. Reports of menstrual status from two different interviews were compared. Results The overall correlation between reported and measured/documented weight was high. Current weight was reported with high accuracy in all diagnostic groups and without tendencies to underreport. Patients with bulimia nervosa, but not those with anorexia nervosa, underreported their historical top weight. The most common reason for large discrepancies between reported and documented historical weights was that the two weights compared referred to different time points. The reports on menstrual status were divergent for 13% of the patients, most notably 4 of 15 patients on oral contraceptives had been categorized as having menstruations in one of the interviews. Conclusion Reported weight history and menstrual status are of high accuracy in teenage girls with eating disorders. © 2005 by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source]

Weight monitoring of breastfed babies in the United Kingdom , interpreting, explaining and intervening

MATERNAL & CHILD NUTRITION, Issue 1 2006
MA (Cantab), Magda Sachs BA
Abstract Weighing infants in their first 6 months is an important aspect of growth monitoring and a common activity of child health care services worldwide. During the same 6 months, support for establishing breastfeeding and the promotion of continued exclusive breastfeeding are important activities of health professionals. Parents and health professionals may perceive conflicts between achieving both robust growth and continuing breastfeeding. In this narrative review, the literature on weighing breastfed babies in the United Kingdom is examined. A companion paper examined issues of growth charts, scales and weighing frequency and accuracy. This paper considers issues of interpretation of the plotted weight values for individual breastfed babies, noting the complexities of growth patterns, which may lead to difficulties of accurate identification of those individuals whose growth merits further investigation. Little attention has been given to issues of explaining the interpreted growth curves to parents and this issue is explored and noted as of importance for further study. Research evidence on choosing appropriate interventions to improve the growth of breastfed babies is reviewed. The paucity of such evidence leads to suggestions for future study. This review gathers together a wide range of literature from many different perspectives, with the hope of informing weight monitoring practice so that this can both identify infants whose weight may be of concern, and who may need appropriate intervention, and support continued breastfeeding. [source]

Intrauterine growth standards in a developing country: a study of singleton livebirths at 28,42 weeks' gestation

Growth patterns in children with sickle cell anemia during puberty

PEDIATRIC BLOOD & CANCER, Issue 4 2009
Melissa Rhodes MD
Abstract Background Previous studies of children with homozygous sickle cell anemia (SCA) show impaired growth and maturation. The correlation of this suboptimal growth with metabolic and hematological factors during puberty is poorly understood. Procedure We studied a group of pre-adolescent children with SCA (19 males, 14 females) and healthy controls (16 males, 15 females) matched for race, sex, body size, and pubertal development. Height, weight, body mass index (BMI), and body composition changes were longitudinally assessed over a 2-year period and compared between the groups and with Z scores based on US growth charts. These changes were correlated with hemoglobin (Hgb) concentration and with energy expenditure (EE) measured using indirect whole-room calorimetry. Results Children with SCA progressed through puberty slower than control children. While, after 2 years, pubertal males with SCA were shorter, their annual increases in weight were not different from controls. The mean fat free mass (FFM) increments were significantly less in males and females with SCA than in control children. In males with SCA, growth in height declined over time and was significantly slower than in matched controls (P,<,0.05). Conclusion Growth delays were present during puberty in children with SCA. Decreased growth velocity in children with SCA was independently associated with decreased Hgb concentration and increased total EE. Pediatr Blood Cancer 2009;53:635,641. © 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc. [source]

Author response to: Practical application of customised growth charts

BJOG : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY, Issue 3 2010
J Gardosi
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Using the new UK-WHO growth charts

CHILD: CARE, HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT, Issue 4 2010
Richard Reading
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Inconsistent determination of overweight by two anthropometric indices in girls with Turner syndrome

ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 3 2009
Tsuyoshi Isojima
Abstract Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of overweight in girls with Turner syndrome (TS) as classified by the two major anthropometric indices, body mass index (BMI) and weight-for-height (WFH) and to make growth reference charts of them for comparison with those of the normal population. Method: The samples for analysis were obtained from a retrospective cohort. In total, 1447 girls' cross-sectional data were analysed. Subjects were divided into four groups by ages: group A (0,5.99 years), B (6,10.99 years), C (11,15.99 years) and D (16,20.99 years). The cut-off values of overweight by BMI and WFH were those of the 90th percentile and 120 percent, respectively and the prevalence was calculated. For constructing growth reference charts, the LMS method was used. Results: The prevalence of overweight differed between the two indices. The proportions of the coincidental classification in all subjects, group A, B, C and D were 82.53%, 89.96%, 91.79%, 69.98% and 60.61%, respectively. These differences corresponded to the difference of age-dependent patterns of the two indices from those of the normal population, as judged from the growth charts constructed with all subjects. Conclusion: A discrepancy in the prevalence of overweight as classified by BMI and WFH for girls with TS was detected. [source]

Children's growth: A health indicator and a diagnostic tool

Factors predicting final height in early treated congenital hypothyroid patients

CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY, Issue 5 2006
Maurizio Delvecchio
Summary Objective, To evaluate pubertal development and final height (FH) in early treated patients with congenital hypothyroidism (CH) and to identify the main factors predicting FH. Design, Retrospective. Patients, Eighty-five patients with early diagnosed and treated CH. Measurements, Evaluation of length/height at diagnosis (mean age 26·6 days), at onset of puberty, and at the end of linear growth. Results, Mean FH was 161·7 cm in females and 173·8 cm in males, within ± 0·9 cm of the 50th percentile of Italian growth charts, 5 cm higher than the mean target height (TH). Linear growth did not differ according to thyroid imaging findings. In males, height at onset of puberty was 0·16 standard deviation score (SDS), not statistically different from FH (,0·09 SDS). In females, height both at onset of puberty (0·39 SDS) and at menarche (0·57 SDS) was significantly higher (P < 0·001) than FH (,0·10 SDS). Puberty started at a mean chronological age of 10·2 and 11·6 years in females and males, respectively, with a corresponding bone age. FH correlated with TH and height at diagnosis, at onset of puberty, and at menarche. Multiple regression analysis showed that height at onset of puberty and TH are the most important factors explaining FH variability, although height at onset of puberty is slightly more important. Conclusions, Our results, obtained in the largest reported available group of congenital hypothyroid patients, show that final height is higher than target height in both sexes and that height at onset of puberty is the main factor affecting final height. [source]

The importance of diet-specific growth charts

ACTA PAEDIATRICA, Issue 2 2003
RG Whitehead
No abstract is available for this article. [source]