the height-, weight-, and bmi-for-age of polish school-aged children and adolescents relative to international and local growth references的身高,体重,和符合波兰学龄儿童和青少年相对于引用国际和国内增长.pdfVIP

Kulaga et al. BMC Public Health 2010, 10:109 /1471-2458/10/109 RESEARCH ARTICLE Open Access The height-, weight-, and BMI-for-age of Polish school-aged children and adolescents relative to international and local growth references 1 2* 3 4 1 Zbigniew Kulaga , Mieczysław Litwin , Marcin Tkaczyk , Agnieszka Różdżyńska , Katarzyna Barwicka , Aneta Grajda1 4 1 1 5 , Anna Świąder , Beata Gurzkowska , Ewelina Napieralska , Huiqi Pan Abstract Background: The growth of children is an indicator of health and society’s wellbeing. Growth references are useful in monitoring a child’s growth, which is a very important part of child care. Poland’s growth references are not updated regularly. Although several growth reference ranges have been developed in Poland over recent years, sampling was restricted to urban populations of major cities. The aim of this study was to assess how well Polish children match with, or diverge from, regional charts and to compare them with international growth references. Methods: Four Polish and two international (WHO 2007 and USCDC2000) growth references were used to calculate the height, weight and BMI z-scores in a recent, large, population-representative sample of school-aged children and adolescents in Poland. The distributions of z-scores were analysed with descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Results: Mean height z-scores calculated with the use of the WHO 2007 and USCDC2000 references were positive and significantly different from zero over the entire age range. The mean height z-score was closest to zero in the Poznan reference for boys (0.05) and Warszawa referen