title: Body mass index percentile curves for predominantly breastfed children aged 0-2 years from Ankara, Turkey.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The percentiles of weight, height and body mass index (BMI) change markedly from one country to another and also from one city to another, particularly in childhood. The aim of the present study is to construct BMI percentile curves for predominantly breastfed Turkish children aged 0-2 years from Ankara, Turkey.
  
  
  METHODS
  The study population consisted of healthy boys and girls aged 0-2 years from the middle-high socioeconomic status between 2002 and 2004 in well child clinic of Gazi University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey. The BMI values for boys and girls were calculated from the height and weight measurements, and BMI percentile values and curves were obtained separately for boys and girls by the LMS method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The current findings indicate that the BMI percentile values for boys are higher than those for girls in general. The estimated curves for BMI showed that there was a constant increase in BMI values towards 7th or 8th month and a slight decrease until 24th month in both boys and girls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The current study presents percentile curves for BMI values in predominantly breastfed Turkish children aged 0 to 2 years living in Ankara, Turkey. To our knowledge, this is the first study considering BMI percentiles for predominantly breastfed Turkish children aged 0-2 years. However, WHO multicenter growth reference study curves can be used until constructing multicenter BMI reference curves representing Turkey (Fig. 2, Tab. 3, Ref. 19).
authors.affiliation: Firat University, Department of Statistics, Elazig, Turkey. halisdemir@firat.edu.tr
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Halisdemir
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Colak
authors.forename: A D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Camurdan
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ergocen
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sahin
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Elhan
mesh_terms: D001827:Body Height; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight; D001942:Breast Feeding; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D014421:Turkey