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Anthropometric indices of failure to thrive
1Department of Community Child Health, Belmont House, 3 Belmont Grove, Leeds LS2 9NP, UK.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|May 9, 2000
Abstract
Aims:
To compare five anthropometric methods of classifying failure to thrive in order to ascertain their relative merits in predicting developmental, dietary, and eating problems.
Methods:
The five anthropometric methods were compared in 83 children with failure to thrive.
Results:
The methods were inconsistent in classification of severity, and no one method was superior in predicting problems.
Conclusions:
Weight alone, being the simplest, is still the most reasonable marker for failure to thrive and associated problems.