Olness K, Yip R, Indritz A, Torjesen E
Am J Dis Child. 1984 Jun;138(6):544-7. doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1984.02140440028006.
To provide guidelines for assessing growth status of Indochinese refugee children, height and weight measurements were obtained from 1,650 children residing in Lao refugee camps, Cambodian refugee camps, and surrounding Thai villages. These are compared with the few existing growth references for Asian children. In comparison to US growth standards (National Center for Health Statistics/Centers for Disease Control) for children, the mean weight for age and mean height for age of the studied groups are approximately 2 SDs below US means. Weight for height is 0.7 SD below US means. This marked difference in growth status appears to be due to nutritional factors related more to cultural or economic issues affecting these children than to their genetic background. The US growth standards can serve as reference tools in evaluating the growth status of newly arrived Southeast Asian children, if used with the perspective that Southeast Asian children, on a group basis, have different distributions on US growth curves.
为制定评估印度支那难民儿童生长状况的指南，我们对居住在老挝难民营、柬埔寨难民营及周边泰国村庄的1650名儿童进行了身高和体重测量。并将这些数据与现有的少量亚洲儿童生长参考标准进行比较。与美国儿童生长标准（国家卫生统计中心/疾病控制中心）相比，研究组儿童的年龄别平均体重和年龄别平均身高比美国儿童均值低约2个标准差。身高别体重比美国儿童均值低0.7个标准差。生长状况的这种显著差异似乎是由于营养因素，这些因素更多地与影响这些儿童的文化或经济问题有关，而非其遗传背景。如果在使用美国生长标准评估新抵达的东南亚儿童生长状况时，考虑到东南亚儿童作为一个群体在美国生长曲线上有不同的分布情况，那么这些标准可作为参考工具。
