Approaches to detecting growth faltering in infancy and childhood
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 14679493 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jenny Argyle (Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 499-519 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Human Biology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0301-4460 • E-ISSN: 1464-5033 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0301446032000112698 |
| PMID | 12959893 |
| OpenAlex | W2036331442 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 77 |
One of the purposes of monitoring a child's weight or height is to detect growth faltering. In infancy the focus is on monitoring weight gain, primarily for detecting infants at risk of failure-to-thrive. In childhood, this switches to height gain, e.g. the response of a child that is growth hormone deficient to treatment with growth hormone. Cross-sectional charts provide no guidance in a longitudinal context. If we note the current weight or height of a child, but want to say something about a child's growth since the last weight and height measurement, we need to use a velocity/increment reference or take a conditional approach to the problem. Here we focus on growth faltering and review the mathematical approaches to this problem. Discussion will concentrate on the relative merits of the following approaches: velocity references and increment charts or tables; conditional gain Z-scores;infancy weight-monitoring charts and longitudinal growth norms implemented in the growth package LGROW; tracking indices and distance charts and centile crossing. Overall conditional gain Z-scores provide the most flexible means of assessing growth patterns
Body weight · Developmental psychology · Early childhood · Failure to thrive · Geography · Growth velocity · Longitudinal study · Statistics · Weight gain · Birth, Development, and Health · Child Nutrition and Feeding Issues · Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors · Mathematics · Medicine · Psychology · Internal Medicine · Pediatrics
Cross sectional stature and weight reference curves for the UK, 1990.
Standards from birth to maturity for height, weight, height velocity, and weight velocity
Clinical longitudinal standards for height, weight, height velocity, weight velocity, and stages of puberty.
Smoothing reference centile curves
Regression Using Fractional Polynomials of Continuous Covariates
Clinical longitudinal standards for height and height velocity for North American children
Intelligence Quotient Scores of 4-Year-Old Children
An Analysis of Transformations
Decanalization of weight and stature during childhood and adolescence
The decanalization of weight, recumbent length, and head circumference during infancy
Determining growth faltering with a tracking score
British growth charts for height and weight with recommendations concerning their use in auxological assessment
Invited Review
The use of short-term increments in weight to monitor growth in infancy
Measuring the stability of individual growth patterns
Short-term and long-term variability of standard deviation scores for size in children
Longitudinal growth standards for preschool children
Regression to the mean
Conditional standards for growth in height of British children from 5·0 to 15·99 years of age
Monitoring the heights of prepubertal children
Notes on the statistics of growth standards
A method for determining the dynamics and intensity of average growth
Structure of monthly increments of length, weight and head circumference in the first year
Distribution-free estimation of age-related centiles
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0.27 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2023 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |