Growth charts from controversy to consensus

Growth follows a specific set of patterns inspite of variability in children. This led to the development of growth charts. As growth provides an interplay of many factors, growth chart helps monitor growth and diagnose disease. They are also used for epidemiological purpose. There are many growth c...

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Autores principales: Khadilkar, Vaman, Phanse, Supriya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Mini Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3603022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23565374
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.104035
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description Growth follows a specific set of patterns inspite of variability in children. This led to the development of growth charts. As growth provides an interplay of many factors, growth chart helps monitor growth and diagnose disease. They are also used for epidemiological purpose. There are many growth charts available. Training of health care workers to use and interpret growth chart in the children is needed for national health.
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spelling pubmed-36030222013-04-05 Growth charts from controversy to consensus Khadilkar, Vaman Phanse, Supriya Indian J Endocrinol Metab Mini Review Growth follows a specific set of patterns inspite of variability in children. This led to the development of growth charts. As growth provides an interplay of many factors, growth chart helps monitor growth and diagnose disease. They are also used for epidemiological purpose. There are many growth charts available. Training of health care workers to use and interpret growth chart in the children is needed for national health. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3603022/ /pubmed/23565374 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2230-8210.104035 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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