OBJECTIVE The study determined the impact of a community-based nutrition education programme, using trained community nutrition advisors, on the anthropometric nutritional status of mixed-race children aged between 2 and 5 years. DESIGN AND SETTING The programme was implemented over two years in four study areas in the Free State and Northern Cape Provinces. Two control areas were included to...

BACKGROUND We evaluated growth and nutritional status of preschool children between 2 and 6 years old from low income families from 14 daycare centers. METHODS Cross-sectional study with 1544 children from daycare centers of Santo Andre, Brazil. Body weight (W), height (H) and body mass index (BMI) were classified according to the 2000 National Center for Health Statistics (CDC/NCHS). Cutoff ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the growth of exclusively breastfed infants from birth to 6 months of life. METHODS This was a longitudinal study of 184 children who received primary care at a public institution (Exclusive Breastfeeding Stimulation Program, PROAME) in Belém, state of Pará, Brazil, between February 2000 and January 2001. A total of 102 children completed the study. All were born at full...

OBJECTIVE To describe preschool malnutrition prevalence and trends in Mexican children for the 1988, 1999 and 2006 Mexican National Nutrition Surveys using WHO-2006 standards and National Center for Health Statistics/WHO (NCHS/WHO) references. MATERIAL AND METHODS Prevalence of undernutrition (< minus 2 z-score for weight/age, height/age and weight/height) and overweight (> plus 2 z-score for...

A cross-sectional study on 1206 children (788 boys, 618 girls) aged 1-12 years, belonging to low socioeconomic status, of Barasat and Madhyamgram, West Bengal, India, was undertaken to investigate age and sex variations in height and weight. It also evaluated the levels of underweight and stunting among them. Anthropometric measurements included weight and height. Weight-for-age (WA) and height...

OBJECTIVES This report provides detailed information on how the 2000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) growth charts for the United States were developed, expanding upon the report that accompanied the initial release of the charts in 2000. METHODS The growth charts were developed with data from five national health examination surveys and limited supplemental data. Smoothed pe...

BACKGROUND National survey data linked with state cancer registry data has the potential to create a valuable tool for cancer prevention and control research. A pilot project-developed in a collaboration of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the Florida Cancer Data System (FCDS) at the University of Miami -links the records of the 1...

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is rarely diagnosed in the United States. Delayed diagnosis is a significant problem in the management of HS. In the past decade, there has been an increase in HS research. To determine whether those efforts have led to an increase in diagnoses, an analysis of visits to physicians in the United States from 1979 to 2012 was performed, using National Center for Healt...

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Four data sources are used in this article. 1) The Cape Area Panel Study1 (Lam et al 2006) is a random sample of 4758 young adults aged 14-22 in 2002 who live in the Cape Town Metropolitan Area. These young adults were interviewed first in 2002. A subset of 1360 young adults were reinterviewed in 2003, with the remainder reinterviewed in 2004, and all were reinterviewed in 2005. This paper util...