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Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months
OBJECTIVE: Growth charts are widely used to assess children's growth status and can provide a trajectory of growth during early important months of life. Racial differences necessitate using local growth charts. This study aimed to provide standardized growth curves of body mass index (BMI) for...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056770 |
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author | Emdadi, Maryam Safarian, Mohammad Doosti, Hassan |
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description | OBJECTIVE: Growth charts are widely used to assess children's growth status and can provide a trajectory of growth during early important months of life. Racial differences necessitate using local growth charts. This study aimed to provide standardized growth curves of body mass index (BMI) for children living in northeast Iran. METHODS: A total of 23730 apparently healthy boys and girls aged 25 to 60 months recruited for 20 days from those attending community clinics for routine health checks. Anthropometric measurements were done by trained health staff using WHO methodology. The LMSP method with maximum penalized likelihood, the Generalized Additive Models, the Box-Cox power exponential distribution distribution, Akaike Information Criteria and Generalized Akaike Criteria with penalty equal to 3 [GAIC(3)], and Worm plot and Q-tests as goodness of fit tests were used to construct the centile reference charts. FINDINGS: The BMI centile curves for boys and girls aged 25 to 60 months were drawn utilizing a population of children living in northeast Iran. CONCLUSION: The results of the current study demonstrate the possibility of preparation of local growth charts and their importance in evaluating children's growth. Also their differences, relative to those prepared by global references, reflect the necessity of preparing local charts in future studies using longitudinal data. |
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spelling | pubmed-34461132012-10-09 Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months Emdadi, Maryam Safarian, Mohammad Doosti, Hassan Iran J Pediatr Original Article OBJECTIVE: Growth charts are widely used to assess children's growth status and can provide a trajectory of growth during early important months of life. Racial differences necessitate using local growth charts. This study aimed to provide standardized growth curves of body mass index (BMI) for children living in northeast Iran. METHODS: A total of 23730 apparently healthy boys and girls aged 25 to 60 months recruited for 20 days from those attending community clinics for routine health checks. Anthropometric measurements were done by trained health staff using WHO methodology. The LMSP method with maximum penalized likelihood, the Generalized Additive Models, the Box-Cox power exponential distribution distribution, Akaike Information Criteria and Generalized Akaike Criteria with penalty equal to 3 [GAIC(3)], and Worm plot and Q-tests as goodness of fit tests were used to construct the centile reference charts. FINDINGS: The BMI centile curves for boys and girls aged 25 to 60 months were drawn utilizing a population of children living in northeast Iran. CONCLUSION: The results of the current study demonstrate the possibility of preparation of local growth charts and their importance in evaluating children's growth. Also their differences, relative to those prepared by global references, reflect the necessity of preparing local charts in future studies using longitudinal data. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2011-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3446113/ /pubmed/23056770 Text en © 2011 Iranian Journal of Pediatrics & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial 3.0 License (CC BY-NC 3.0), which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Emdadi, Maryam Safarian, Mohammad Doosti, Hassan Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months |
title | Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months |
title_full | Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months |
title_fullStr | Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months |
title_full_unstemmed | Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months |
title_short | Standardized Percentile Curves of Body Mass Index of Northeast Iranian Children Aged 25 to 60 Months |
title_sort | standardized percentile curves of body mass index of northeast iranian children aged 25 to 60 months |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3446113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23056770 |
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