So how do doctors figure out whether kids' height and weight measurements are "healthy"? Whether they're developing on track? Whether any medical problems are affecting growth? Doctors use growth ...

Growth charts are widely used in health care settings throughout the world in order to monitor children's growth. Changes in the growth pattern can be an early indicator of medical problems. Children ...

While we've long measured children's height and weight, new growth curves assist with the measurement and assessment of childhood muscle ...

For starters, healthy kids come in a wide range of shapes and sizes, and they don't grow at a steady rate, either. Your child can look very different from your friends' kids -- or from his own ...

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Studies have shown that customised growth charts increase the antenatal detection rate of SGA babies from 29% to 48% (p=0.02). Methodology The authors reviewed the birth weights of all stillborn ...

Twenty six (3%) children had more than 10% weight loss, but none showed evidence of major organic disease. Actual weights in the first fortnight are half to one centile space lower than growth charts ...

also felt this was needed in a child with catch up growth. Conclusion Growth charts were not plotted accurately, partly due to poor chart design. Healthcare workers did not seem to discriminate ...

Then, we generated standardising anthropometric measures in children including z score of height-for-age (HAZ) and z score of weight-for-age (WAZ) according to the WHO growth charts,16 17 and derived ...