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Leslie Ayre-Jaschke mentions that she has read that WHO is
looking into the need for new growth charts and asks if
anything has been published. In addition to Dewey K et al.
[including the WHO Working Group on Infant Growth, of which
Kathryn Dewey is a member] Growth of breast-fed infants
deviates from current reference data: a pooled analysis of
US, Canadian and European datasets. Pediatrics
1995;96(3):495-503, the full report of the WHO Working Group
on Infant Growth. document WHO/NUT/94.8, 83 pages, including
pooled data presented in growth chart form, is available
through Distribution and Sales, World Health
Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland, fax (41-22)
791-4857. The implications of adopting an international
growth chart using reference data based on breast-fed
infants are discussed in: An evaluation of infant growth:
the use and interpretation of anthropometry in infants.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1995,
73(2):165-174. An effort is indeed under way within WHO's
Nutrition unit to develop new reference data with
representation of a wide range of ethnic backgrounds and
parental stature. Stay tuned! Finally, every professional
staff member in WHO sooner or later gets called "Dr." (I've
been here since 1980, so it happens all the time). "Mr."
would be accurate but Jim is just fine.
Jim Akre, Nutrition unit, WHO, Geneva
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