Length and height percentiles for children in the South-East Asian Nutrition Surveys (SEANUTS).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Health and nutritional information for many countries in the South-East Asian region is either lacking or no longer up to date. The present study aimed to calculate length/height percentile values for the South-East Asian Nutrition Survey (SEANUTS) populations aged 0·5-12 years, examine the appropriateness of pooling SEANUTS data for calculating common length/height percentile values for all SEANUTS countries and whether these values differ from the WHO growth references.

Design

Data on length/height-for-age percentile values were collected. The LMS method was used for calculating smoothened percentile values. Standardized site effects (SSE) were used for identifying large or unacceptable differences (i.e. $\mid\! \rm SSE \!\mid$ >0·5) between the pooled SEANUTS sa

SUBMITTER: Rojroongwasinkul N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10271147 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature