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The 2017 Korean National Growth Charts for children and adolescents: development, improvement, and prospects
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Growth charts are curves or tables that facilitate the visualization of anthropometric parameters, and are widely used as an important indicator when evaluating the growth status of children and adolescents. The latest version of the Korean National Growth Charts released in 2007 has raised concerns regarding the inclusion of data from both breastfed and formula-fed infants, higher body mass index (BMI) values in boys, and smaller 3rd percentile values in height-for-age charts. Thus, new growth charts have been developed to improve the previous version. The 2006 World Health Organization Child Growth Standards, regarded as the standard for breastfed infants and children, were introduced for children aged 0-35 months. For children and adolescents aged 3-18 years, these new growth charts include height-for-age, weight-for-age, BMI-for-age, weight-for-height, and head circumference-for-age charts, and were developed using data obtained in 1997 and 2005. Data sets and exclusion criteria were applied differently for the development of the different growth charts. BMI-for-age charts were adjusted to decrease the 95th percentile values of BMI. Criteria for obesity were simplified and defined as a BMI of ≥95th percentile for age and sex. The 3rd percentile values for height-for-age charts were also increased. Additional percentile lines (1st and 99th) and growth charts with standard deviation lines were introduced. 2017 Korean National Growth Charts are recommended for the evaluation of body size and growth of Korean children and adolescents for use in clinics and the public health sector in Korea.
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“Among KNHANES participants 1–20 years of age, those with weight for height <−3 standard deviation (SD) or >+2 SD were excluded. These cutoff values for subject selection were used in previous Korean Growth Charts and are considered appropriate for preventing skewness.9”
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“To overcome the drawbacks of previous reference charts, the newly developed WC reference adopted up-to-date statistical methodology, such as the removal of subjects with extreme weight, smoothing of percentile lines, and the LMS estimation method, which was applied in the 2017 Korean National Growth Charts.9”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kim, J. H., Yun, S., Hwang, S.-S., Shim, J. O., Chae, H. W., Lee, Y. J., Lee, J. H., Kim, S. C., Lim, D., Yang, S. W., Oh, K., Moon, J. S., The Committee for the Development of Growth Standards for Korean Children and Adolescents, The Committee for School Health and Public Health Statistics, T. K. P. S., & Division of Health and Nutrition Survey, K. C. F. D. C. A. P.
- Affiliations
- Seoul National University (KR)
- Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency (KR)
- Korea University Guro Hospital (KR)
- Yonsei University (KR)
- Pusan National University Children's Hospital (KR)
- Chungbuk National University (KR)
- Jeonbuk National University Hospital (KR)
- Corresponding author
- Oh, Kyungwon
- Moon, Jin Soo
- ORCID
- Venue
- Korean Journal of Pediatrics
- Publisher
- Korean Pediatric Society
- Published
- 2018
- Volume
- 61
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 135
- ISSN
- 1738-1061 (ISSN-L)
- 2092-7258
- PMC
- PMC5976563
- OpenAlex
- W2803129443
- Semantic Scholar
- b19ce79f2b3b48572e42bc71d85db1df5710014f
- Cited by
- 638
- References
- 31
- Citations by year
- 2026: 72 · 2025: 86 · 2024: 106 · 2023: 97 · 2022: 85 · 2021: 89 · 2020: 66 · 2019: 26 · 2018: 10
- FWCI
- 9.13
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
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- Locations
- Korean Journal of Pediatrics (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Ministry of Health and Welfare (2016-E34004-00)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Human Health and Disease
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
- Keywords
- child growth standards, anthropometric reference values, height-for-age, body mass index for age, weight-for-age, head circumference, breastfeeding, bottle feeding, childhood obesity, WHO Child Growth Standards, Korean children and adolescents
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