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Journal of Tropical Pediatrics 1980 26(3):80-84; doi:10.1093/tropej/26.3.80
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Malnutrition and Nutritional Anthropometry

BARBARA D. RICHARDSON, D.Sc., Chief Research Officer *

National Research Institute for Nutritional Diseases South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town

Measurements of weight and height play an important role in delineating children on adequate, possibly excess, and those on lesser, yet apparently satisfactory food intakes. As intake bears a direct relationship to growth, assessment of nutritional state using only weight-for-age is unsatisfactory.

To disregard height tends to overestimate proportions of "malnourished" children; minimises the very real problem of overweight and obesity, particularly in infants; and fails to consider normality of body proportions of the majority with normal weight-for-height. From a public health point of view this is of vital importance in face of a diminishing world supply of protein.


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