Absolute deviation in median BMI-for-chronological-age and BMI-for-height-age between samples with tall or short stature from the sample with normal stature.

<p>A smaller deviation indicates that the median BMI of short or tall sample is more similar to the median BMI of the sample with normal stature. For boys with a short stature in the ages 4 up to 14 years of age, expressing BMI according to height-age resulted in a smaller deviation from the BMI distribution of children with a normal stature than when expressing BMI to chronological age, whereas in boys with a tall stature this was true in the ages 4-16 years. In girls, expressing BMI to height-age resulted in a smaller deviation in the ages 2-10 years if of being short stature and in the ages 2-17 years when being tall.</p

Height-SDS and prevalence of short stature for different growth charts in end-stage renal disease patients.

<p>Mean height-SDS and prevalence of short stature according to different growths are shown separately for 0–1 year old and 2–17 year old patients. The National growth charts include both recent national growth charts as the growth charts based on data collected before 1990.</p

New growth charts proposed for Northern European countries without recent national growth charts.

<p>Outer lines indicate −2.5 SDS and +2.5 SDS.</p

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<p> <b>SE of height for different growth charts by sex and age.</b></p

New growth charts proposed for Southern European countries without recent national growth charts.

<p>Outer lines indicate −2.5 SDS and +2.5 SDS.</p

Characteristics of different growth charts.

1<p>Although the sample was not population based, the authors stated that height of sampled children will likely not be different from children living in other regions in the country;</p>2<p>Method similar to LMS method;</p>3<p>Russian charts are published in a key pediatric book, and are commonly applied by pediatricians throughout Russia;</p>4<p>The UK-WHO growth charts are applied in clinical practice in the United Kingdom and constitute growth data from WHO growth standards with birth data from the British 1990 charts. As the WHO growth standards are already included in the analyses, the new WHO-UK growth charts were not considered.</p

Mean height SDS for 2–17 year old end-stage renal disease patients.

1<p>National growth charts refer to both growth charts based on data collected before 1990 as well as to recent national growth charts;</p>2<p>Height-for-age reference values according to the Euro-Growth reference are not available for children over the age of 3 years;</p>3<p>These values represent the average height SDS of children with ESRD from all European countries together.</p

Mean length SDS for 0–1 year old end-stage renal disease patients.

1<p>National growth charts refer to both growth charts based on data collected before 1990 as well as to recent national growth charts;</p>2<p>As the CDC recommends the use of the WHO growth standards for children under the age of 2 years, mean length SDS values based on the CDC for children younger than 2 years are not reported;</p>3<p>These values represent the average length SDS of children with ESRD from all European countries together.</p