de Onis M, Garza C, Habicht J P
Nutrition Programme, World Health Organization, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland.
Pediatrics. 1997 Nov;100(5):E8. doi: 10.1542/peds.100.5.e8.
The National Center for Health Statistics growth reference, recommended by the World Health Organization for international use since the late 1970s, has served many useful purposes. Among the most important are the provision of a single set of growth references for the assessment of the general nutritional status of populations of children in diverse settings, as an ancillary tool to screen children for health and nutrition disorders, and as a basis for educational materials that promote improved child care by families. However, because of serious drawbacks due to the origin and type of data used for their construction and the analytical methods applied in their derivation, the suitability of these curves for international purposes has been challenged recently.
自20世纪70年代末以来，世界卫生组织推荐供国际使用的美国国家卫生统计中心生长参考标准发挥了许多有益作用。其中最重要的作用包括：提供一套单一的生长参考标准，用于评估不同环境中儿童群体的总体营养状况；作为筛查儿童健康和营养障碍的辅助工具；作为促进家庭改善儿童照料的教育材料的基础。然而，由于构建这些标准所使用的数据来源和类型以及推导过程中应用的分析方法存在严重缺陷，这些曲线在国际上的适用性最近受到了质疑。
