Abstract

VAILLANT SUAREZ, Guillermo Manuel; LOPEZ NISTAL, Libia Margarita  and  LOZANO LEBLANC, Ada Lázara. Percentile values of weight, height and body mass index in Algerian schoolchildren of Wilaya de Djelfa. MEDISAN [online]. 2011, vol.15, n.10, pp. 1354-1360. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 3 324 Algerian schoolchildren aged between 5 to 14 years, belonging to 10 communes of Wilaya de Djelfa in the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, attended by "Vilma Espín Guillois" Cuban Medical Brigade from September 2007 to May 2009. The investigation was based on determining the percentiles of weight, height and body mass index by age and sex of this population, according to the Cuban regulations and references of the World Health Organization and National Center for Health Statistics, from which results tables were made to evaluate the process of growth and nutritional status in children of those ages in this country.

Keywords : child; weight; height; body mass index; percentile; growth; nutritional status; Algeria.

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