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Adelheid W. Onyango
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 43
Citations - 16635
Adelheid W. Onyango is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Breastfeeding. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 41 publications receiving 14071 citations.
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Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents
Mercedes de Onis,Adelheid W. Onyango,Elaine Borghi,Amani Siyam,Chizuru Nishida,Jonathan Siekmann +5 more
TL;DR: The new curves are closely aligned with the WHO Child Growth Standards at 5 years, and the recommended adult cut-offs for overweight and obesity at 19 years.
WHO child growth standards: length/height-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age - Methods and development
Mercedes de Onis,Adelheid W. Onyango,Elaine Borghi,Amani Siyam,Alain Pinol,Cutberto Garza,Jose Martines,Reynaldo Martorell,Cesar G. Victora,Maharaj K. Bhan,Cora L. Araújo,Anna Lartey,William B. Owusu,Nita Bhandari,Kaare R. Norum,Gunn-Elin A. Bjoerneboe,Ali J. Mohamed,Kathryn G. Dewey,Krishna Belbase,Maureen Black,Wm. Cameron Chumlea,Tim Cole,Edward Frongillo,Laurence Grummer-Strawn,Roger Shrimpton,Jan Van den Broeck,Huiqi Pan,Robert Rigby,Mikis Stasinopoulos,Stef van Buuren,Elaine Albernaz,Elaine Tomasi,Rita de Cássia Fossati da Silveira,Gisele Nader,Isabella Sagoe-Moses,Veronica Gomez,Charles Sagoe-Moses,Sunita Taneja,Temsunaro Rongsen,Jyotsna Chetia,Pooja Sharma,Rajiv Bahl,Anne Baerug,Elisabeth Tufte,Karin Rudvin,Hilde Nysaether,Deena Alasfoor,Nitya S. Prakash,Ruth M. Mabry,Hanadi J. Al Rajab,Sahar A. Helmi,Laurie A. Nommsen-Rivers,Roberta J. Cohen,M. Jane Heinig +53 more
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Elaboración de valores de referencia de la OMS para el crecimiento de escolares y adolescentes
Mercedes de Onis,Adelheid W. Onyango,Elaine Borghi,Amani Siyam,Chizuru Nishida,Jonathan Siekmann +5 more
TL;DR: The methods used to reconstruct the 1977 NCHS/WHO growth reference are reported, to compare the resulting new curves with the 2007 WHO reference, and to describe the transition at 5 years of age from the WHO standards for under-fives to these new curves for school-aged children and adolescents.
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Measurement and standardization protocols for anthropometry used in the construction of a new international growth reference.
Mercedes de Onis,Adelheid W. Onyango,Jan Van den Broeck,Wm. Cameron Chumlea,Reynaldo Martorell +4 more
TL;DR: Rigorous anthropometry and data collection protocols were used in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study to ensure high data quality and central and local monitoring identified anthropometrists deviating from standard procedures, and immediate corrective action was taken.
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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.
TL;DR: The WHO standards provide a better tool to monitor the rapid and changing rate of growth in early infancy and their adoption will have important implications for child health with respect to the assessment of lactation performance and the adequacy of infant feeding.