title: Development of standards for rapid assessment of nutritional status: Colombian children.
abstract: A method is described for deriving polynomial equations which describe weight and height for age and weight and height for children between 6 and 16 yr of age. Data for Colombian boys and girls have been utilized to illustrate the procedure.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000375:Aging; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D003105:Colombia; D003201:Computers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008433:Mathematics; D009749:Nutrition Surveys; D012737:Sex Factors