# CDC 2010: use of WHO and CDC growth charts for children aged 0-59 months in the United States

Guideline · id `maternal:guideline-cdc-2010-growth-charts` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `c7fb95f1d15a7d13` (public)

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## In plain language

CDC's 2010 report advising US clinicians to use the 2006 international growth charts for children younger than 24 months and to keep its own growth charts for ages 2 to 19 years.

## Technical summary

MMWR Recommendations and Reports, 10 September 2010 (PubMed publication date). The abstract was read; the report was not (cdc.gov returns HTTP 403 to scripts). PubMed lists a published erratum (MMWR Recomm Rep. 2010 Sep 17;59(36):1184) that has no PubMed number and was not read. The recommendation is recorded as a decision on the page for the international growth standards. Whether a later edition replaces it was not checked. This guideline is an addition to the plan's list, made so that the CDC recommendation has a guideline to belong to.

## Connected pages

- Issuer (collective author of the report): Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (`core:cdc`)

## Provenance

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Last substantive edit: 2026-10-15
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-15