Nationwide age references for sitting height, leg length, and sitting height/height ratio, and their diagnostic value for disproportionate growth disorders

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 807-812

  Fredriks, A M ^a   Van Buuren, S ^b   Van Heel, W J M ^a   Dijkman Neerincx, R H M ^c   Verloove Vanhorick, S P ^b   Wit, J M ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c RIJNSTATE HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY BUILD; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWN RUMP LENGTH; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GROWTH DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDROPLASIA; INFANT; LEG LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; NEWBORN; NOMOGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE VALUE; SITTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; BONE DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CROWN-RUMP LENGTH; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEG; MALE; MARFAN SYNDROME; NETHERLANDS; POSTURE; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 23144440203     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2004.050799     Document Type: Article

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