Growth patterns from birth to 24 months in Chinese children: a birth cohorts study across China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of child growth is important in detecting under- and over-growth. We aimed to examine the growth patterns of healthy Chinese infants from birth to 24 months.

Methods

This study was based on six recent birth cohorts across China, which provided data (from 2015) on 4251 children (2174 boys, 2077 girls) who were born at term to mothers without gestational or preexisting diabetes, chronic hypertension, preeclampsia, or eclampsia. Analyses were performed using 28,298 longitudinal anthropometric measures in 4251 children and the LMS method to generate smoothed Z-score growth curves, which were compared to the WHO growth standards (which are based on data from 2003) and current Chinese growth references (which are based on data from 2005).

Results

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SUBMITTER: Ouyang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6217782 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature