An investigation of the growth profiles of Pakistani children
2004
Kamal, S.A.,Karachi Univ. (Pakistan). Dept. of Mathematics)Firdous, S.Alam, S.J
The NGDS (National Growth and Developmental Standards for the PakistaniChildren) Pilot Project was initiated in 1998 to establish Pakistan-basedanthropometrical data library and growth charts, to formulate mathematicalmodels, which predict growth parameters, to write softwares, which generatedetailed growth profiles and to develop inexpensive anthropometry instrumentsfrom local resources, which could be employed in obtaining anthropometricmeasurements of Pakistani rural and slum- area children. Standing and sittingheights, shoulder widths, weights and mid-upper-arm circumferences aremeasured on over 2000 healthy children. Mathematical procedure/software wasdeveloped, which takes as input heights and weights of biological parents, andthose of child at 2 successive occasions, 6 months apart. The output is adetailed growth profile indicating stunting and wasting (if present),overweight/underweight conditions, height velocity, rate of weight gain/lossand biomass index (comparison of all three with references). Failure to growmay be the first indication of a major underlying problem. The authorsrecommend growth monitoring and analysis of all 4-10 year old children usingthis software.
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