Rekan2,
Seingat saya dulu ada yg. menanyakan mengenai grafik berat badan /
tinggi badan anak.
Ternyata sudah (baru) ada revisinya (versi amerika).
Website-nya ada tertulis di bagian bawah artikel.
Utk. yg. tidak bisa browsing ke internet, saya sudah mendownload chart
dari websitenya utk. boys dan girls.
Yang berminat, tolong kirim mail ke e-mail saya pribadi. Jangan ke milis
balita-anda, ya... Nanti membebani rekan2 yg. lain. Atau Pak Admin
membolehkan saya utk. kirim attachment kalau yg. lain setuju ?
Trims,
Rien.
-------- Original Message --------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AP / KAREN GULLO, Associated Press Writer)
Subject: Pediatric Growth Charts Revised
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For the first time in 23 years, the government
is updating the charts used to track children's growth and adding a
new formula to help identify weight problems in children as young
as 2.
The charts, a staple in the offices of pediatricians and school
nurses around the country, now include the body mass index, or BMI,
a single number that compares weight to height. It's already used
to track obesity among adults.
The new charts from the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention also should more accurately reflect the average height
and weight of U.S. children from birth to age 3, because they are
based on more recent and much more comprehensive data than the old
charts for babies and toddlers. The changes are minor except for
the lightest and heaviest children, CDC officials said.
``One of the first questions people ask new parents is 'How much
did your baby weigh?''' said Secretary of Health and Human Services
Donna Shalala. ``From that moment on, growth charts are a reference
point for health professionals and parents as their children grow
into adolescents and adulthood.''
The new research found babies and toddlers to be slightly
heavier than in the previous charts, and also found infants in the
first few months have larger head circumferences than the older
charts showed.
For example, in a previous chart, a 3-year-old girl at the 50th
percentile -- or the chart's halfway point -- would be 32.6 pounds
and 38.4 inches in length. On the new chart, the 50th percentile is
33.3 pounds and 38.7 inches.
As a result, pediatricians will classify more babies as
underweight and fewer as overweight, said officials at CDC's
National Center for Health Statistics, which published the charts.
On the new charts, a 22.5-pound 2-year-old girl would be in the
5th percentile, which is considered underweight by many doctors
depending on how long the child measured. On the old chart, the
same child would have been in the 10th percentile, lean but not
necessarily underweight.
The new BMI charts, which begin at age 2, are a more accurate
tool for measuring obesity than older charts that included a
measurement of weight according to height, officials said.
``This means parents have an opportunity to change their
children's eating habits before a weight problem ever develops,''
said Shalala.
A 2-year-old boy in the 50th percentile, or middle range, would
have a BMI of 16.5. A boy with a score of 19.8 would be in the 95th
percentile -- meaning the vast majority of boys his age have a lower
BMI. Kids at the 95th percentile are considered overweight and
those at the 85th percentile are considered at risk.
Obesity is a growing national health problem among both adults
and children. Nearly one in five American adults are obese and the
number of obese children has doubled in the past 20 years to about
4.5 million kids, or 11 percent of youngsters ages 6 to 17,
according to the latest government studies.
Health professionals believe that catching the problem is
important in preventing children from going on to have weight
problems or becoming obese later in life.
The new charts use government data from the last three decades
about formula- and breast-fed children from all racial and ethnic
groups. The old charts were based on a private study during the
1960s and 1970s that looked only at white, formula-fed children in
Ohio.
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On the Net:
The new growth charts can be found at
http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts
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