TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
A1  - Stec, Karol
A1  - Amann, Christian
A1  - Meigen, Christof
A1  - Van Buuren, Stef
T1  - Synthetic Growth Reference Charts
JF  - American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
N2  - Objectives: To reanalyze the between-population variance in height, weight, and body mass index (BMI), and to provide a globally applicable technique for generating synthetic growth reference charts. Methods: Using a baseline set of 196 female and 197 male growth studies published since 1831, common factors of height, weight, and BMI are extracted via Principal Components separately for height, weight, and BMI. Combining information from single growth studies and the common factors using in principle a Bayesian rationale allows for provision of completed reference charts. Results: The suggested approach can be used for generating synthetic growth reference charts with LMS values for height, weight, and BMI, from birth to maturity, from any limited set of height and weight measurements of a given population. Conclusion: Generating synthetic growth reference charts by incorporating information from a large set of reference growth studies seems suitable for populations with no autochthonous references at hand yet. (C) 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.22759
SN  - 1042-0533
SN  - 1520-6300
VL  - 28
SP  - 98
EP  - 111
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -