Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
By doing this, doctors can track a child's growth over time and monitor how a child is growing in relation to other children. There are different charts for boys and girls because their growth rates and patterns differ. For both boys and girls there are two sets of charts: one for infants ages 0 to 36 months and another for ages 2 and above.
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
Human body weight is a person's mass or weight. Strictly speaking, body weight is the measurement of mass without items located on the person. Practically though, body weight may be measured with clothes on, but without shoes or heavy accessories such as mobile phones and wallets, and using manual or digital weighing scales .
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
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]
Short title: Birth to 36 months: Boys, Head circumberence-for-age and Weight-for-length percentiles: Image title: CDC Growth Charts: United States: Author
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!
Graph of body mass index showing the various divisions. Created by me using gnuplot and Adobe Illustrator 9/23/06, released into public domain Category:Medical diagrams: 03:52, 24 September 2006: 800 × 800 (58 KB) InvictaHOG~commonswiki: Graph of body mass index showing the various divisions.