title: New growth charts for children.
abstract: New charts are available for monitoring children's growth. They are known as the 1990 Nine Centile United Kingdom Charts and replace the Tanner-Whitehouse Charts, which were first published in 1966. The older charts are now obsolete. The data upon which they are based no longer valid as children's growth patterns have changed; babies nowadays gain weight faster during early life and may then experience some deceleration of growth after this initial spurt and, general, children are taller.
mesh_terms: D001827:Body Height; D002648:Child; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D012016:Reference Values; D006113:United Kingdom