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- Title
Czy możliwy jest konsensus zasad monitorowania rozwoju fizycznego dzieci?
- Authors
Świąder-Leśniak, Anna; Majcher, Anna; Pyrżak, Beata; Dziechciarz, Piotr
- Abstract
Regular, long-term anthropometric follow-up is one of the fundamental methods of assessing the child's health and well-being. However, there is still a lot of inconsistency in anthropometric practices and standards that may have a negative impact on clinical practice (e.g. delay in diagnosing children with growth or feeding disorders, genetic and metabolic syndromes). The paper discusses the principles of basic measurements: length/height, body weight, circumferences: head, chest and arm. Attention was also paid to the use of professional anthropometric equipment. Appropriately performed measurements allow the calculation of weight-height indices, which define nutrition disturbances (overweight, obesity and malnutrition), and also constitute the basis for conducting specialised diagnostics. In 2011, a group of experts recommended standards of body length/height, body weight, head circumference and body mass index developed by the World Health Organization for children up to 5 years of age. In 2013, nationwide reference values for weight, height and body mass index for children aged from 3 to 6 years were published and accepted as valid (OLA project). They complemented previously developed percentile charts for children aged 7-18 years (OLAF project). The paper proposes to adopt uniform standards of anthropometric measurements and to initiate a discussion in the paediatric community on the acceptance of common growth charts for the basic anthropometric measurements.
- Subjects
WORLD Health Organization; BODY mass index; BODY weight; STATURE; GROWTH disorders; GROWTH of children; INGESTION disorders
- Publication
Paediatrics & Family Medicine / Pediatria i Medycyna Rodzinna, 2020, Vol 16, Issue 3, p268
- ISSN
1734-1531
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15557/PiMR.2020.0049