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Growth charts consist of a series of percentile curves that illustrate the distribution of selected body measurements in children. Pediatric growth charts have been used by pediatricians, nurses, and parents to track the growth of infants, children, and adolescents in the US since 1977.
WHO Growth Charts
In 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new international growth standards for term infants from birth to 2 years of age based on longitudinal data from six countries. In September 2010, the CDC issued a recommendation that health care providers use the new WHO growth standards to monitor growth for infants and children ages 0 to 2 years of age in the U.S.
The AAP supports this recommendation because the WHO standards:
1) Establish growth of the breastfed infant as the norm for growth
2) Provide a better description of physiological growth in infancy
3) They are based on a high-quality study designed explicitly for creating growth charts.
Separate curves for boys and girls describe weight-for-age, height-for-age, weight-for-length/height and body mass index-for-age.
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