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Elaine Borghi
Researcher at World Health Organization
Publications - 39
Citations - 18030
Elaine Borghi is an academic researcher from World Health Organization. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Malnutrition. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 30 publications receiving 15275 citations. Previous affiliations of Elaine Borghi include Whittington Hospital.
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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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Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children
TL;DR: The need for effective interventions starting as early as infancy to reverse anticipated trends of childhood overweight and obesity have increased dramatically since 1990 are confirmed.
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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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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.