Worldwide implementation of the WHO Child Growth Standards.
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...Today, over 140 countries are using the robust methodology of the WHO standards, which accurately describe physiological growth and harmonize child growth assessment the world over (de Onis et al. 2012)....
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...The use of cut-off points is required to determine the limits of ‘normality’, and this practice is not unique to anthropometry but widely applied in clinical and laboratory tests....
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...performance, low adult wages, lost productivity and, when accompanied by excessive weight gain later in childhood, increased risk of nutrition-related chronic diseases((2))....
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...That figure is likely to continue to increase given the importance of monitoring WFA during the first year of life, and thereafter monitoring height in addition to weight, because faltering patterns are clearly different for LHFA and WFA((6)) and short stature (or stunting) is associated with negative long-term outcomes((2,7))....
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