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Ghaemmaghami P, Ayatollahi SMT, Alinejad V, et al. Longitudinal standards for growth velocity of infants from birth to 4 years born in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran. Epidemiol Health. 2015;37:e2015029doi: 10.4178/epih/e2015029.
Ghaemmaghami, P., Ayatollahi, S. M. T., Alinejad, V., & Haem, E. (2015). Longitudinal standards for growth velocity of infants from birth to 4 years born in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran. Epidemiology and health, 37e2015029. https://doi.org/10.4178/epih/e2015029
Ghaemmaghami, Parvin, et al. "Longitudinal standards for growth velocity of infants from birth to 4 years born in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran." Epidemiology and health vol. 37 (2015): e2015029. doi: https://doi.org/10.4178/epih/e2015029
Ghaemmaghami P, Ayatollahi SMT, Alinejad V, Haem E. Longitudinal standards for growth velocity of infants from birth to 4 years born in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran. Epidemiol Health. 2015 Jun 23;37:e2015029. doi: 10.4178/epih/e2015029. eCollection 2015. PMID: 26212504; PMCID: PMC4591908.
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Epidemiol Health. 2015 Jun 23;37:e2015029. doi: 10.4178/epih/e2015029. eCollection 2015.

Longitudinal standards for growth velocity of infants from birth to 4 years born in West Azerbaijan Province of northwest Iran.

Epidemiology and health

Parvin Ghaemmaghami, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Ayatollahi, Vahid Alinejad, Elham Haem

Affiliations

  1. Department of Biostatistics, Medical School, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran.
  2. Patient Safety Research Center, Urmia University of Medical Sciences, Urmia, Iran.

PMID: 26212504 PMCID: PMC4591908 DOI: 10.4178/epih/e2015029

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: Growth velocity is an important factor to monitor for appropriate child growth. This study presents the growth velocity of infants based on length, weight, and head circumference.

METHODS: The subjects of this study were 308 neonates (160 boys and 148 girls) born in West Azerbaijan Province of northwestern Iran who were followed from birth for 4 years. The weights and lengths of the subjects were recorded at birth, 1, 2, 4, 6, and 9 months, and 1, 1.5, 2, 3, and 4 years of age, while the head circumferences were measured just up to 1.5 years of age. In this study, the Lambda-Mu-Sigma (LMS) method using LMS Chartmaker Pro (Institute of Child Health, London, UK) was utilized to obtain growth velocity percentiles.

RESULTS: After obtaining growth velocity charts for weight, length, and head circumference (5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles), the researchers could deduce that there was a sharp decrease in the velocity growth charts from birth to 2 years of age but these charts remained relatively stable up to 4 years for both sexes. Growth velocities for the length and weight of boys in the present sample are slightly but not significantly greater than those in girls through the first months of infancy and there was no significant difference between girls and boys up to 4 years.

CONCLUSIONS: This paper provided the first local growth velocity standards of length, weight, and head circumference for infants by analyzing longitudinal measurements produced for West Azerbaijan Province, which should be updated periodically. It seems that there has been a significant difference between the growth velocity of infants in northwestern Iran and southern Iran within the past few years.

Keywords: Growth; Head circumference; Length; Velocity; Weight

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