title: [Immigration: indicators or growth and nutrition].
abstract: In the last few years, many immigrant and adopted children from poor countries have come to live in Spain and the number is increasing. In this article we indicate which standard references can help pediatricians to determine the nutritional status and growth of these children whose social, personal and familial histories are different from our own and sometimes unknown. In these cases application of the standard national growth charts of the receiving country is recommended.
authors.affiliation: Centro de Salud de Salvatierra-Agurain. Alava. España. ormaran@jet.es
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Aranzabal Agudo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D006128:Growth; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012016:Reference Values; D013030:Spain