WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age (2006 paper)
The 2006 paper that explains how the WHO Child Growth Standards were built and presents the growth charts for children from birth to 5 years.
- Publication
- In this atlas
Overview
Technical summary
Acta Paediatrica Supplement, April 2006 issue (PubMed gives the month only). The collective author is the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. The abstract reports curves for boys and girls aged 0 to 60 months for weight-for-age, length/height-for-age, weight-for-length/height and body mass index-for-age, and concludes that the standards depict normal growth under optimal environmental conditions. Only the abstract was read.
Bibliographic identity
- Type
- Article
- Source
- WHO Child Growth Standards based on length/height, weight and age
- Edition
- PubMed record (abstract and bibliographic data) from NCBI E-utilities. Published in Acta Paediatrica Supplement, April 2006 (PubMed gives the month only, so the source has no day-level publication date). The full text was not fetched.
- Publisher
- Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992). Supplement
Record details
- Record id
maternal:pub-who-2006-child-growth-standards- Content hash
79607b667a1d55af486ad900a90e8148847a712a19635f7cd890e9934010445d