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2. Classification of childhood weight - Wikipedia

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   The 2000 CDC growth charts - a revised version of the 1977 NCHS growth charts - are the current standard tool for health care providers and offer 16 charts (8 for boys and 8 for girls), of which BMI-for-age is commonly used for aiding in the diagnoses of childhood obesity. [1]

3. Growth chart - Wikipedia

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   Growth charts have been constructed by observing the growth of large numbers of healthy children over time. The height, weight, and head circumference of a child can be compared to the expected parameters of children of the same age and sex to determine whether the child is growing appropriately. Growth charts can also be used to predict the ...

4. File:CDC growth chart boys birth to 36 mths cj41c017.pdf

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   Short title: Birth to 36 months: Boys, Length-for-age and Weight-for-age percentiles: Image title: CDC Growth Charts: United States: Author: NCHS: Keywords

5. Weight and height percentile - Wikipedia

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   Children with failure to thrive usually have a weight that is below the 3rd or 5th percentile for their age and a declining growth velocity (meaning they are not gaining weight as expected). Recently it has come to light that current growth charts for infants under 24 months overstate the expected weight of babies and lead to potentially obese ...

6. Failure to thrive - Wikipedia

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   Weight for length below the 5th percentile among children of the same sex and age; [3] Length for age below the 5th percentile; [10] Body mass index for age under the 5th percentile; [3] Weight for age or weight for length dropping by at least two major percentiles (95th, 90th, 75th, 50th, 25th, 10th, and 5th) on a growth chart; [3]

7. Tanner scale - Wikipedia

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   The Tanner scale (also known as the Tanner stages or sexual maturity rating (SMR)) is a scale of physical development as pre-pubescent children transition into adolescence, and then adulthood. The scale defines physical measurements of development based on external primary and secondary sex characteristics , such as the size of the breasts ...