At a typical pediatric visit, parents and clinicians examine where a child falls on growth charts that compare their height and weight to national averages.

Growth charts are a kind of childhood ritual. With each immunization, public health nurses document a baby's head circumference, height and weight. But are they doing more harm than good?

Kids How to interpret your child’s growth chart Charting your child's height, weight, and head circumference can determine whether they are growing at the appropriate rate for their age. June 6 ...

Children avoiding food is a major concern for many parents. Lack of proper nutrition often causes poor growth in kids making them look smaller and shorter than kids of same age. The purpose of this ...

Using an electroencephalogram (EEG) to measure electrical activity in the brain, the QIMR Berghofer team developed the “growth chart” by applying machine learning algorithms to data from 2000 children ...

Four sets of gender-specific growth charts for children under 18 are developed in HK2020. They include the weight-for-age charts, the length/height-for-age charts, the body mass index-for-age charts, ...

To gauge how specific food allergies impact children's height and weight, the study team conducted a longitudinal chart review for 191 children. To be included in the study, the children had to ...

When children do not grow taller at the same rate as they gain weight: For instance, if a boy’s height is in the 40th percentile and his weight is in the 85th percentile, he is taller than 40% ...