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Height and weight reference charts for children aged 2-18 years from Verona, Italy
G Zoppi1, F Bressan, A Luciano
1Chair of Paediatrics, Verona University and Paediatric Division, City Hospital of Verona.
Objective:
To compile curves for growth in weight and height for Italian children and adolescents.
Design:
Cross-sectional.
Setting:
All primary and secondary schools in the area of Verona, Italy, between October 1986 and January 1987.
Subjects:
20534 female and 20345 male children aged 2-18 years.
Methods:
Weight and height were measured using Salus balances, and age in days was calculated between the date of measurement and that of birth: centiles of weight and height by age were calculated by the LMS method of Cole (1990).
Results:
The height and weight curves were similar for both boys and girls to those obtained in Switzerland by Prader & Budliger (1977). However pre-pubertal Italian boys and girls are taller and heavier than the standards for France (Sempè & Pedron, 1953-1970) or for the UK by Tanner & Whitehouse (1976).