height-for-age
Using height-for-age differences (HAD) instead of height-for-age z-scores (HAZ) for the meaningful measurement of population-level catch-up in linear growth in children less than 5 years of age
... population-level height deficit for the first 5 years of ...population-level height def- icit (i.e., mean height being below the median of the standard) reflects growth impairment caused by a defi- ...
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The association of early-life exposure to ambient PM2.5 and later-childhood height-for-age in India: an observational study
... 0.027 height-for-age standard de- viations shorter than she would be if exposed to very low levels of air pollution at ...a height deficit of ...
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Inequality of Opportunity in child Health in Ethiopia
... One advantage in estimating IOp parametrically is that it allows measuring the contribution of individual or group of circumstances to IOp. In order to identify the important circumstances contributing most to the IOp in ...
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Growth charts: do they reflect healthy growth in Sri Lankan children?
... charts, height for age, weight for age and BMI for age, irrespective of their position within the ‘normal range’, should have a simi- lar body composition, which should not predispose to ...
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Sporadic Cryptosporidium infection in Nigerian children: Risk factors with species identification
... child’s age, socioeconomic index score, height-for-age (stunting), weight-for-age (underweight), gender, animal contact index, house- hold crowding, average hygiene index, malaria infec- tion, ...
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Worldwide Timing of Growth Faltering: Implications for Nutritional Interventions
... for age, length/height for age, and weight for length/height were compared with the National Center for Health Statistics and Cambridge growth references, for children younger than 60 ...of ...
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Multilevel analysis of individual, household, and community factors influencing child growth in Nepal
... We set out in this paper to test two general hypotheses. In the first case, we find confirmatory evidence that the community-level factors we considered (food shortages, gender equity, proportion of population belonging ...
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Intrahousehold and interhousehold child nutrition inequality in Malawi
... the height-for-age-z-score are all negative while those for the weight-for-height z-score are all positive; supporting our earlier finding that stunting is a more serious problem than ...( ...
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Z Score Anthropometric Indicators Derived from NCHS 1977, CDC 2000 and WHO 2006 in Children Under 5 Years in Central Area of Peru
... weight-for-age, height-for-age, weight-for-height and body mass index Z-scores in children 36-60 months of age in the central highlands of Peru were different when using NCHS-1977, ...
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Growth Characteristics of Children With Ectodermal Dysplasia Syndromes
... the height-for-age and weight-for-age z scores for all children from birth to 20 years, weight-for-height z scores for children who were younger than 5 years, and BMI-for-age z scores ...
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Final height in Italian patients with congenital hypothyroidism detected by neonatal screening: a 20-year observational study
... In this multicentre observational study, we enrolled 215 patients (152 females, 63 males) with permanent CH, born at full term after an uncomplicated pregnancy be- tween 1980 and 2000 and referred to our Hospitals be- ...
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What Women Want in a Man: The Role of Age, Social Class, Ethnicity, and Height
... In this study participants were given short vignettes describing a male on four dimensions in a 2 × 2 × 2 × 2 experimental design. The four dimensions were age (18 - 21 vs. 30 - 33), profession (occupations in ...
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Vegetarian-style dietary pattern during adolescence has long-term positive impact on bone from adolescence to young adulthood: a longitudinal study
... by age from adolescence to young adulthood, we computed the consumed amount (g) per 1000 kcal of total energy intake for each food ...chronological age as the time-dependent variable, and sex and age ...
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THE EFFECT OF INBREEDING UPON GROWTH IN JERSEY CATTLE
... The pattern of variation of this statistic with age, and the regressions of “terminal” height on the percent of inbreeding, inde- pendent of “initial” height, for various gr[r] ...
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PATTERNS OF GROWTH IN HEIGHT AND WEIGHT FROM BIRTH TO EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE
... by using different age periods for each individual.. Distributions of height and weight from 1 to 18 years for boys and girls in the. Maturity Series.[r] ...
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Spirometric Standards for Healthy Children Aged 6-15 Years in a School of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
... Methodology: Sprirometric evaluation of normal school going children was done by computerized spirometer (Ponygraphic of COSMED srl-ltaly) in a school of Dhaka city during the period of February 2002 to July 2002. Nine ...
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Blood Pressure Percentiles by Age and Height From Nonoverweight Children and Adolescents in Germany
... by age including overweight children: KiGGS SBP 95th percentile by age including overweight children are 6 to 7 mm Hg lower in most age groups in boys and 3 to 7 mm Hg lower in girls compared with ...
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Nitrogen and Phosphorus Fertilization Promotes Aerial Part Development and Affect Nutrient Uptake by Carobinha of the Brazilian Cerrado
... is age and season ...of height, with a reflection on the increased growth of the xylopodium, a storage organ important for the regrowth after the dormancy period and environmental stresses ...
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Age and Height at Diagnosis in Turner Syndrome: Influence of Parental Height
... Signs of spontaneous puberty occur in 10% to 20% of the patients with TS6”5’24 and are accom- panied by a small growth spurt.’5 Prepubertal growth and final adult height are, however, si[r] ...
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Cross-sectional study of height and weight in the population of Andalusia from age 3 to adulthood
... On the other hand, we live in a complex and multiracial society. It is difficult or even impossible to carry out an auxological evaluation of an immigrant child in our coun- try, due to the lack of standards from their ...
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