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• Defining obesity risk status in the general childhood population: Which cut-offs should we use?
  International Journal of Pediatric Obesity 2010;5:458-60.
• WHO Child Growth Standards: Methods and development
  Growth velocity based on weight, length and head circumference. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2009.
• Algorithms for converting estimates of child malnutrition based on the NCHS reference into estimates based on the WHO Child Growth Standards
  BMC Pediatrics 2008, 8:19 (05 May 2008)
  (http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2431/8/19).
• Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007;85:660-7.
• WHO Child Growth Standards: Methods and development: Head circumference-for-age, arm circumference-for-age, triceps skinfold-for-age and subscapular skinfold-for-age.
  Geneva: World Health Organization, 2007.
• Symposium: A new 21st century international growth standards for infants and young children
  
  Introduction
  Journal of Nutrition 2007;137:142-3.
• Comparison of the WHO Child Growth Standards and the CDC 2000 Growth Charts
  Journal of Nutrition 2007;137;144-8.
• Field-testing the WHO Child Growth Standards in four countries
  Journal of Nutrition 2007;137;149-52.
• Evaluation of the feasibility of international growth standards for school-aged children and adolescents
  Journal of Nutrition 2007;137;153-7.
• Comparison of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards and the National Center for Health Statistics/WHO international growth reference: implications for child health programmes
  Public Health Nutrition 2006;9:942-7.
• WHO Child Growth Standards: Methods and development: Length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age.
  Geneva: World Health Organization, 2006.
• Construction of the World Health Organization child growth standards: selection of methods for attained growth curves.
  Statistics in Medicine 2006;25(2):247-65.
• Socioeconomic predictors of unconstrained child growth in Muscat, Oman.
  Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 2004;10:295-302.
• The WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study (MGRS): Rationale, planning, and implementation
  Food and Nutrition Bulletin 2004;25(supplement 1):S3-S84.
• Growth charts for breastfed babies.
  Jornal de Pediatria (Brazil) 2004;80:85-7 [in Portuguese].
• Worldwide practices in child growth monitoring.
  Journal of Pediatrics 2004;144;461-5.
• Factors associated with unconstrained growth among affluent Ghanaian children.
  Acta Paediatrica 2004;93:1115-9.
• The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts and the growth of breastfed infants.
  Acta Paediatrica 2003;92:413-9.
• Growth of healthy infants and the timing, type, and frequency of complementary foods.
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2002;76:620-7.
• Growth performance of affluent Indian children is similar to that in developed countries.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2002;80:189-95.
• El crecimiento de niños indios de familias prósperas, similar al de los países desarrollados
  Boletín de la Organización Mundial de la Salud 2002;80:189-95.
• A new international growth reference for young children.
  Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001;45-53.
• Growth patterns of breastfed infants in seven countries.
  Acta Paediatrica 2000;89:215-22.
• Infant and young child nutrition: the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study.
  Geneva: World Health Organization, 1999.
• Nutrición del lactante y del niño pequeño: estudio multicéntrico de la OMS sobre el patrón de crecimiento
  Ginebra: Organización Mundial de la Salud, 1999.
• A new international growth reference for young children.
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1999;70(1 Part 2):169S-72S.
• The NCHS reference and the growth of breast- and bottle-fed infants.
  Journal of Nutrition 1998;128:1134-8.
• Time for a new growth reference.
  Pediatrics 1997; 100(5):E8.
• The WHO Growth Chart: historical considerations and current scientific issues.
  Bibliotheca Nutritio et Dieta 1996;53:74-89.
• Anthropometric reference data for international use: recommendations from a World Health Organization Expert Committee.
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1996;64:650-8.
• Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Report of a WHO Expert Committee. Technical Report Series No. 854.
  Geneva: World Health Organization, 1995.
• El estado físico: uso e interpretación de la antropometría. Informe de un Comité de Expertos de la OMS. Serie de informes técnicos 854.
  Ginebra: Organización Mundial de la Salud, 1995.
• An evaluation of infant growth: the use and interpretation of anthropometry in infants.
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1995;73:165-74.
• Growth of breast-fed infants deviates from current reference data: a pooled analysis of US, Canadian, and European data sets.
  Pediatrics 1995;96:495-503.
• An evaluation of infant growth.
  Geneva: World Health Organization, 1994.