Anthropometry in the pediatrician's office

Vickers, Vernette S.; Stuart, Harold C.

doi:10.1016/s0022-3476(43)80074-3

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“…In making this latter comparison it is noted that the higher means of the Brush Foundation are 'derived from the measurements of a selected sampling of 999 white children, the majority of whose parents are above average both in education and in economic level and who are of North European ancestry. The occipito-frontal circumference means are similar to those reported by Vickers and Stuart (1943) for Boston, U.S.A., infants, and while in the first six months of life they resemble the data of Meredith (1946) for Iowa infants in the second six months they exceed Meredith's data. By contrast the present data are lower than the means published by Bayley and Davis (1935) for Berkeley, California, infants.…”

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Infant Growth

Thomson¹

1956

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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“…This is similar to Meredith (1946), Vickers and Stuart (1943), Bayley and Davis (1935) and Boyd (1948). It is noted, however, that particularly in the female infant Low's tables show a greater standard deviation at 52 weeks than at 3 days.…”

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Infant Growth

Thomson¹

1956

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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“…Many sets of anthropometric reference values have been published wickers and Stuart, 1943;Scott et al, 1962;Wingerd et al, 1971;Frisancho, 1974;Robson et al, 1975;Hamill et al, 1977). The reference data currently used to evaluate growth in the United States and in some other countries were compiled by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS; Hamill et al, 1977).…”

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Physical growth of infants 7 to 13 months of age: Results from a national survey

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Martinez²

1987

American J Phys Anthropol

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This study considers measurements of weight, recumbent length, head circumference, triceps skinfold, and arm circumference of 1,100 infants aged 7 to 13 months from a cross-sectional sample representative of the U.S. infant population. Based on these data, smoothed percentiles of weight, recumbent length, head circumference, triceps skinfold, and arm circumference by sex and age (in months) and weight for recumbent length were calculated. Compared with the percentile values from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS; Hamill et al., 1977, DHEW Publ. No. PHS 78-1650), percentile values from the 1984 Ross Laboratories Infant Nutrition Survey (RNS) for weight, recumbent length, and weight for recumbent length tended to be smaller (p less than .05). We attribute these variations to differences in sampling design and conclude that they are not of sufficient magnitude to warrant new growth charts. Smoothed percentiles for triceps skinfold and arm circumference presented herein are new reference values that can be used for assessment of the nutritional and growth status of older infants.

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“…The main American, standards with which the English should be compared, are those of Vickers andStuart (1943), Simmons (1944), Gray and Ayres (1931), O'Brien, Girshick and Hunt (1941), Stuart and Meredith (1946) and Meredith (1946). Vickers and Stuart's data comes from middle and lower social class Boston children, and list means, standard deviations, range, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th percentiles six-monthly from birth to 10 years for boys and girls for height, sitting height (or crown-rump at early ages), hip and chest width, head and chest circumference and weight.…”

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