Use of national and international growth charts for studying height in european children: Development of up-to-date european height-for-age charts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Bonthuis, Marjolein ^a   van Stralen, Karlijn J ^a   Verrina, Enrico ^b   Edefonti, Alberto ^c   Molchanova, Elena A ^d   Hokken Koelega, Anita C S ^e   Schaefer, Franz ^f   Jager, Kitty J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c FONDAZIONE IRCCS CA GRANDA OSPEDALE MAGGIORE POLICLINICO   (Italy)

^d Russian Children's Clinical Hospital   (Russian Federation)

^e SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPE; FEMALE; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; EUROPE; GROWTH; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC;

EID: 84865051916     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0042506     Document Type: Article

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