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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1995 41(3):181-185; doi:10.1093/tropej/41.3.181
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Age-related Weight-for-height Charts for South Iranian School Children

S. M. T. Ayatollahi, PhD, FSS, CStat

Department of Biostaistics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Correspondence: Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz 71344, Iran

Analysis of data from the Shiraz (han) growth study requires to take age into account when assessing weight-for-height of school children aged 6–12. A unified structure standard score method is used to constru age-related weight-for-height. Weight-for-height charts were drawn for each age-sex category of children. These charts suggest that local weight-for-height standards should be used in clinical work.


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