The childhood component of the ICP model is appropriate for growth analysis of short Israeli children.
OBJECTIVE
To determine whether the childhood component of the infancy-childhood-puberty (ICP) model is appropriate for growth analysis of short Israeli children.


METHODS
From 204 short, prepubertal children, 2-16 years of age, 1,516 height measurements were analyzed. For each child's measurements, a best-fitted line based on C equation of ICP has been drawn and the distribution of measurement points around that line was calculated.


RESULTS
Ninety percent of the measurements were at a distance of no more than +/- 2 cm from the best-fitted ICP line.


CONCLUSIONS
The C component of ICP model can be used as a growth analysis tool for shorter than average, prepubertal, Israeli children, older than 2 years of age.
Pediatric Endocrinology Unit, Soroka Medical Center, Beer-Sheva, Israel. limony@zahav.net.il
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Hershkovitz
D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D011627:Puberty