IAP growth monitoring guidelines for children from birth to 18 years.
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Growth Monitoring is a screening tool to diagnose nutritional, chronic systemic and endocrine disease at an early stage. It has been suggested that growth monitoring has the potential for significant impact on mortality even in the absence of nutrition supplementation or education(1). Experience in Tamilnadu, Maharashtra and other states in India indicates that individual growth monitoring of children is both feasible and extremely useful(2-4).
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Indian pediatrics
دوره 44 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007