Improving the quality of child anthropometry: Manual anthropometry in the body imaging for nutritional assessment study (BINA)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2017, Pages

  Conkle, Joel ^a   Ramakrishnan, Usha ^a,b   Flores Ayala, Rafael ^a,c   Suchdev, Parminder S ^a,b,c,d   Martorell, Reynaldo ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CALCULATION; CHILD; CHILD ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FEMALE; GOLD STANDARD; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; NEWBORN; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY CONTROL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS;

EID: 85038640113     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0189332     Document Type: Article

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