INTRODUCTION Obesity is highly prevalent among American Indians, and effective prevention efforts require caregiver involvement. We examined American Indian (AI) parents' assessment of and level of concern about their kindergarten child's weight status. METHODS We collected baseline data (fall of 2005 and fall of 2006) on children and their parents or caregivers for a school-based obesity pre...

An audio version of this article is available at NEJM.org A 13-year-old boy visits his pediatrician because his school football team requires medical clearance before the start of the season. On physical examination, his weight is 72 kg (above the 99th percentile for age and sex) and his height is 155 cm (the 50th percentile); his body-mass index (the weight in kilograms divided by the square o...

BACKGROUND Current understanding of the associations between actual body weight status, weight perception, body dissatisfaction, and weight control practices among low-income urban African American adolescents is limited. The knowledge can help direct future intervention efforts. METHODS Cross-sectional data including measured weight and height and self-reported weight status collected from 4...

BACKGROUND Birth weight for gestational age is a widely-used proxy for fetal growth. Although the need for different standards for males and females is generally acknowledged, the physiologic vs pathologic nature of ethnic differences in fetal growth is hotly debated and remains unresolved. METHODS We used all stillbirth, live birth, and deterministically linked infant deaths in British Colum...

UNLABELLED The arterial blood pressure was measured in 1,494 school children (810 boys and 684 girls) 5 to 14 years old who attended 46 schools in the province of Girona. OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY to establish the distribution of arterial blood pressure in school children in our community in empirical percentiles according to chronologic and anthropometric variables (age, height, weight and body...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an autosomal recessive disease, which affects many organs as it impairs chloride channel. This study was performed to evaluate growth status and its relationship with some laboratory indices such as Cholesterol (chol), Triglyceride (TG), albumin and total protein in children with CF referred to pediatrics center. This study was designed as a cross-sectional study in one ...

Birth-weight-gestational-age standards help to identify infants in need of special care and to determine causes and means for preventing retardation of intrauterine growth. Previously published standards either were based on small samples, data several decades old or characteristics of subpopulations in the United States or they were not specific for type of birth and sex. We compared the data ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the linear growth and growth velocity of preterm infants born small for gestational age according to variables such as weight, length and head circumference, from birth to three months of corrected age. METHODS Prospective study of one hundred preterm infants born small for gestational age from 28 to 36 weeks after birth and classified as small according to the weight fo...