[New aspects in the classification of the nutritional status]

Considerin recent advances in nutrition somatometry the authors set forth the necessity to bring up to date Gomex's classification with the idea to incorporate other parameters, besides weight, in its application. To this respect, they propose the use of standard deviation as unity to measure the differences between actual values and those taken as reference patterns. Such system offers the advantage to make applicable to all ages the classification mentioned and to obtain an easier and more realistic somatometric comparison among different groups. Other considerations are made on the use of Gomez's classification and examples are set to base their propositions with data from a somatometric inquest.