The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects
Growth charts are curves or tables that facilitate the visualization of anthropometric parameters, and are widely used as an important indicator when evaluating the growth status of children and adolescents. The latest version of the Korean National Growth Charts released in 2007 has raised concerns...
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| author | Jae Hyun Kim Sungha Yun Seung-sik Hwang Jung Ok Shim Hyun Wook Chae Yeoun Joo Lee Ji Hyuk Lee Soon Chul Kim Dohee Lim Sei Won Yang Kyungwon Oh Jin Soo Moon |
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| description | Growth charts are curves or tables that facilitate the visualization of anthropometric parameters, and are widely used as an important indicator when evaluating the growth status of children and adolescents. The latest version of the Korean National Growth Charts released in 2007 has raised concerns regarding the inclusion of data from both breastfed and formula-fed infants, higher body mass index (BMI) values in boys, and smaller 3rd percentile values in height-for-age charts. Thus, new growth charts have been developed to improve the previous version. The 2006 World Health Organization Child Growth Standards, regarded as the standard for breastfed infants and children, were introduced for children aged 0–35 months. For children and adolescents aged 3–18 years, these new growth charts include height-for-age, weight-for-age, BMI-for-age, weight-for-height, and head circumference-for-age charts, and were developed using data obtained in 1997 and 2005. Data sets and exclusion criteria were applied differently for the development of the different growth charts. BMI-for-age charts were adjusted to decrease the 95th percentile values of BMI. Criteria for obesity were simplified and defined as a BMI of ≥95th percentile for age and sex. The 3rd percentile values for height-for-age charts were also increased. Additional percentile lines (1st and 99th) and growth charts with standard deviation lines were introduced. 2017 Korean National Growth Charts are recommended for the evaluation of body size and growth of Korean children and adolescents for use in clinics and the public health sector in Korea. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ae154a33cfd247e49bd160b84b3334ed2022-12-21T17:15:19ZengKorean Pediatric SocietyKorean Journal of Pediatrics1738-10612092-72582018-05-0161513514910.3345/kjp.2018.61.5.13520125550718The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospectsJae Hyun Kim0Sungha Yun1Seung-sik Hwang2Jung Ok Shim3Hyun Wook Chae4Yeoun Joo Lee5Ji Hyuk Lee6Soon Chul Kim7Dohee Lim8Sei Won Yang9Kyungwon Oh10Jin Soo Moon11Department of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, .KoreaDivision of Health and Nutrition Survey, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, .KoreaThe Committee for the School Health and Public Health Statistics, The Korean Pediatric Society, .KoreaThe Committee for the School Health and Public Health Statistics, The Korean Pediatric Society, .KoreaThe Committee for the School Health and Public Health Statistics, The Korean Pediatric Society, .KoreaDepartment of Pediatrics, Pusan National University Children's Hospital' Yangsan, .KoreaDepartment of Pediatrics, Chungbuk National University Hospital' Cheongju, .KoreaDepartment of Pediatrics, Chonbuk National University Children's Hospital, Jeonju, .KoreaDivision of Health and Nutrition Survey, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, .KoreaDepartment of Pediatrics, Seoul National University Children's Hospital, Seoul, .KoreaDivision of Health and Nutrition Survey, Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Cheongju, .KoreaThe Committee for the School Health and Public Health Statistics, The Korean Pediatric Society, .KoreaGrowth charts are curves or tables that facilitate the visualization of anthropometric parameters, and are widely used as an important indicator when evaluating the growth status of children and adolescents. The latest version of the Korean National Growth Charts released in 2007 has raised concerns regarding the inclusion of data from both breastfed and formula-fed infants, higher body mass index (BMI) values in boys, and smaller 3rd percentile values in height-for-age charts. Thus, new growth charts have been developed to improve the previous version. The 2006 World Health Organization Child Growth Standards, regarded as the standard for breastfed infants and children, were introduced for children aged 0–35 months. For children and adolescents aged 3–18 years, these new growth charts include height-for-age, weight-for-age, BMI-for-age, weight-for-height, and head circumference-for-age charts, and were developed using data obtained in 1997 and 2005. Data sets and exclusion criteria were applied differently for the development of the different growth charts. BMI-for-age charts were adjusted to decrease the 95th percentile values of BMI. Criteria for obesity were simplified and defined as a BMI of ≥95th percentile for age and sex. The 3rd percentile values for height-for-age charts were also increased. Additional percentile lines (1st and 99th) and growth charts with standard deviation lines were introduced. 2017 Korean National Growth Charts are recommended for the evaluation of body size and growth of Korean children and adolescents for use in clinics and the public health sector in Korea.http://kjp.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjped-61-135.pdfGrowthGrowth chartsChildAdolescentKorea |
| spellingShingle | Jae Hyun Kim Sungha Yun Seung-sik Hwang Jung Ok Shim Hyun Wook Chae Yeoun Joo Lee Ji Hyuk Lee Soon Chul Kim Dohee Lim Sei Won Yang Kyungwon Oh Jin Soo Moon The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects Korean Journal of Pediatrics Growth Growth charts Child Adolescent Korea |
| title | The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects |
| title_full | The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects |
| title_fullStr | The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects |
| title_full_unstemmed | The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects |
| title_short | The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects |
| title_sort | 2017 korean national growth charts for children and adolescents development improvement and prospects |
| topic | Growth Growth charts Child Adolescent Korea |
| url | http://kjp.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjped-61-135.pdf |
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