Child growth standards

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• Successive 1-Month Weight Increments in Infancy
  The Journal of Nutrition, October 2015 (doi: 10.3945/jn.115.211896)
• Parental height and child growth from birth to 2 years in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study
  Maternal and Child Nutrition 2013, 9 (suppl. 2).
• Worldwide implementation of the WHO Child Growth Standards
  Public Health Nutrition, 2012.
• Defining obesity risk status in the general childhood population: Which cut-offs should we use?
  International Journal of Pediatric Obesity 2010;5:458-60.
• Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007;85:660-7.
• Symposium: A new 21st-century international growth standards for infants and young children
  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.
• Acta Paediatrica supplement on the WHO Child Growth Standards
  Acta Paediatrica Supplement 2006;95:5-101.
• Construction of the World Health Organization child growth standards
  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 2004;80:85-7.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
  American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1996;64:650-8.
• An evaluation of infant growth
  Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1995;73:165-74.
• Growth of breast-fed infants deviates from current reference data
  Pediatrics 1995;96:495-503.