CDC Growth Charts. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Information about the 2000 CDC Growth Charts, and downloadable versions of the charts are available on the CDC website:http://www.cdc.gov/growthcharts.

Frequently Used Guidelines: Anthropometrics and growth. Guidelines for interpretation of growth are presented. http://depts.washington.edu/nutrpeds/fug/growthtoc.htm.

CDC/MCHB Growth Chart Tutorials: Growth Assessment. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Growth Charts Training. 2001. The CDC and MCHB have developed tutorials to accomopany the 2000 CDC Growth Charts. These tutorials are aimed at health care professionals. Modules cover use and interpretation of the charts, including BMI. For information about accessing the tutorials, visit http://depts.washington.edu/growth.

Crown-rump Length. Crown-rump length. McCammon RW, ed. Human Growth and Development. Springfield, Ill: Charles C Thomas, 1970. Longitudinal data from 75 females and 75 males are presented.

Prediction of Stature from Knee Height. Chumlea WC, Guo SS, Steinbaugh ML. Prediction of stature from knee height for black and white adults and children with applications to mobility-impaired of handicapped persons. J Am Diet Assoc. 1994; 94(12): 1385-1388. This article presents data collected during 1960-1970 from children 6-12 years of age. The population was 85% Caucasian.

Sitting Height. Hamill PV, et al. Body weight, stature and sitting height. US Vital and Health Statistics, Series 11, #126; Publication No. HSM 73-1606. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1973. These tables (sitting height for age) are based on the NCHS 1977 population (age 1-18 years).

Triceps Skinfold and Upper Arm Circumference. Frisancho AR. New norms of upper limb fat and muscle areas for assessment of nutritional status. Am J Clin Nutr. 34: 2540-2545, 1981. This article provides age- and sex-specific percentiles for triceps skinfold, upper arm circumference, arm muscle area, and arm fat area based on a cross-sectional sample of 19,097 white subjects age 1 to 74 years.

Estimating body composition in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Mok E, et al. Estimating body composition in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy: comparison of bioelectric impedance analysis and skinfold-thickness measurement. Am J Clin Nutr. 2006; 83:65-69. This article highlights some of the problems with using reference data from typically-developing children when assessing the nutritional status of an individual with a special health care need. In this study, skinfold measurements overestimated fat-free mass and thus underestimated muscle mass in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards. This website includes growth charts for infants and children (ages 0-5 years), based on data from infants who were primarily breastfed and part of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Charts for infants include length-for-age, weight-for-age, weight-for-length, and the site also includes training materials. http://www.who.int/childgrowth/en.