Executive Summary of Workshop to Consider Low Birthweight in Relation to the Revision of the Nchs Growth Charts for Infancy (Birth–3 Years)

By Roche, Alex F.

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Title:	Executive Summary of Workshop to Consider Low Birthweight in Relation to the Revision of the Nchs Growth Charts for Infancy (Birth–3 Years)
Author:	Roche, Alex F.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Medical research, Medical reports
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Publisher:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


Citation APA MLA Chicago F. Roch, B. A. (n.d.). Executive Summary of Workshop to Consider Low Birthweight in Relation to the Revision of the Nchs Growth Charts for Infancy (Birth–3 Years). Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Excerpt
The National Center for Health Statistics/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (NCHS/CDC) has a key role in nutrition monitoring through conducting national surveys of the nutritional and health status of the U.S. population. As part of the Federal Government's Ten-Year Comprehensive Plan for the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Program, NCHS/CDC also has lead responsibility to develop a core set of standardized nutritional status indicators and appropriate interpretive criteria for the general population and subgroups of the population. The assessment and interpretation of weight, recumbent length, and head circumference are critical components of this core nutritional status package for infancy. The third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) was specifically designed to oversample infants and children ages 2 months–5 years to revise the NCHS/CDC growth charts.

Table of Contents
Contents Page Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v The 1977 NCHS/CDC growth charts for infancy (birth–3 years) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 U.S. data available for infancy in 1994 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Revisions of the infancy charts recommended by the 1992 Growth Chart Workshop . . . . . . . . . 1 The prevalence of low birthweight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The inclusion/exclusion of data from LBW infants when revising the NCHS/CDC growth charts for infancy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 The application of two sets of charts for each gender in clinical settings, assistance programs, and research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Procedures to exclude LBW infants from the data sets likely to be used . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Summary and recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 List of Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15