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Comparison of the 2005 growth charts for Saudi children and adolescents to the 2000 CDC growth charts.

Mohammad I MI El Mouzan, Abdullah S AS Al Herbish, Abdullah A AA Al Salloum, Peter J PJ Foster, Ahmad A AA Al Omar, Mansour M MM Qurachi, and Tatjana T Kecojevic

Ann Saudi Med 28(5):334-40 (2008) PMID 18779639

The 2000 CDC growth charts for the United States, a revision of the National Center for Health Statistics/World Health Organization (NCHS/WHO) growth charts, were released in 2002 to replace the NCHS/WHO charts. We evaluated the differences between the CDC growth charts and the Saudi 2005 reference to determine the implications of using the 2000 CDC growth charts in Saudi children and adolescents.

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