The height-, weight-, and BMI-for-age of Polish school-aged children and adolescents relative to international and local growth references.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The growth of children is an indicator of health and society's wellbeing. Growth references are useful in monitoring a child's growth, which is a very important part of child care. Poland's growth references are not updated regularly. Although several growth reference ranges have been developed in Poland over recent years, sampling was restricted to urban populations of major cities. The aim of this study was to assess how well Polish children match with, or diverge from, regional charts and to compare them with international growth references.

Methods

Four Polish and two international (WHO 2007 and USCDC2000) growth references were used to calculate the height, weight and BMI z-scores in a recent, large, population-representative sample of school-aged children an

SUBMITTER: Kulaga Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2837854 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature