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Human growth : assessment and interpretation /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roche, Alex F.
Other Authors: Sun, Shumei
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Child Development.
Growth.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Measurement and assessment
  • Measurement of weight, size, and total body composition
  • The assessment of maturity
  • Growth reference data for general population
  • Changes in percentile levels with age
  • Other important measures
  • Total body composition
  • Percentages of values at older ages
  • Multiple births
  • Low birth weight infants
  • Disease-specific growth charts
  • Maturity reference data
  • 2. Patterns of change in size and body composition
  • Mathematical models for describing growth patterns
  • Growth and body composition during infancy
  • Growth and body composition after infancy
  • Tracking
  • Decanalization
  • Failure-to-thrive
  • Catch-up growth
  • Prediction of adult stature
  • Target stature
  • 3. Determinants of growth
  • Genetic influences
  • Family influences
  • Substance abuse during pregnancy
  • Breast-feeding
  • Hormonal influences
  • Nutritional influences
  • High altitude
  • Maturity
  • 4. Secular changes in growth and maturity
  • Changes in size
  • Changes in maturity
  • Recent slowing of secular changes
  • Determinants of secular changes
  • Secular changes and long-term serial growth studies
  • 5. Significance of human growth
  • Early growth and later growth
  • Maturity
  • Growth and disease
  • Adult stature
  • Assessment of growth
  • Assessment of nutritional status
  • Growth screening