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  • Title: Marginal malnutrition in school-aged Colombian boys: anthropometry and maturation.
    Author: Spurr GB, Reina JC, Barac-Nieto M.
    Journal: Am J Clin Nutr; 1983 Jan; 37(1):119-32. PubMed ID: 6401376.
    Abstract:
    Colombian reference data for weight and height were used to classify 1108 boys 6 to 16 yr old as nutritionally normal, low weight for age, and low weight for height. The normal group in upper socioeconomic urban and normal, low weight for age, low weight for height groups in lower socioeconomic urban and rural populations were studied. The achieved growth, growth velocities, skinfolds, mid-arm and head circumferences, and sexual maturation were all depressed in the nutritionally deprived groups indicating marginal malnutrition. Since normal boys exist in low socioeconomic and rural populations, normative data for economically advantaged children (national standards), on the average, may serve as desirable goals for low socioeconomic and rural populations. Different cutoff points for achieved growth might be established for marginal malnutrition using national or international reference populations. These ought to be age-related because of accumulated effect of slowed growth with age. Head circumference of school-aged children may proved a useful anthropometric tool in deciding early nutritional history. Colombian reference data for weight and height were used to classify 1108 boys 6 to 16 years old as nutritionally normal, low weight for age, and low weight for height. The normal group in upper socioeconomic urban and normal, low weight for age, low weight for height groups in lower socioeconomic urban and rural populations were studied. The achieved growth, growth velocities, skinfolds, midarm and head circumferences, and sexual maturation were all depressed in the nutritionally deprived groups indicating marginal malnutrition. Since normal boys exist in low socioeconomic and rural populations, normative data for economically advantaged children (national standards), on the average, may serve as desirable goals for low socioeconomic and rural populations. Different cutoff points for achieved growth might be established for marginal malnutrition using national or international reference populations. These ought to be age related because of accumulated effect of slowed growth with age. Head circumference of school aged children may provide a useful anthropometric tool in deciding early nutritional history.
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