Growth and nutrition
Percentiles, growth, bone age, pubertal development and pediatric nutrition screening.
This collection brings together 15 pediatric tools related to growth and nutrition, including clinical descriptions, validation status, references and calculators when active.
Separates the broad WHO growth-percentile module from focused tools such as BMI-for-age. This distinguishes weight/height percentile intent from pediatric BMI percentile intent.
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How to use this category
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Evidence and availability
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Scope and maintenance
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Available tools
- WHO Growth — Available unified module for applicable WHO indicators from one common anthropometric input.
- WHO Growth Percentiles — Entry point to the central WHO Growth module for available WHO indicators.
- CDC Growth Percentiles — CDC weight-for-age, stature-for-age, and BMI-for-age percentiles and z-scores, with CDC Extended BMI for high BMI.
- Orbegozo Growth Percentiles — Fundacion Orbegozo growth curves.
- BMI Percentile — WHO Growth preset for BMI-for-age with descriptive output.
- Head Circumference Percentile — WHO Growth preset for WHO 0-5 head circumference-for-age with descriptive output.
- STAMP — Nutritional risk screening tool.
- STRONGkids — Hospital nutritional-risk screening using four domains and a 0-5 score.
- PYMS — Pediatric nutritional screening tool.
- Greulich and Pyle Atlas — Reference atlas for bone-age estimation; it is not an acute decision rule.
- Tanner-Whitehouse 3 — Reference method for bone age, kept distinct from Greulich-Pyle.
- Tanner Sexual Maturity Rating — Reference framework for describing pubertal development in stages.
- Pediatric Ulcerative Colitis Activity Index — Validated six-domain clinical index for ulcerative-colitis activity and longitudinal follow-up.
- Pediatric Crohn Disease Activity Index — Reference index for Crohn-disease activity and longitudinal follow-up.
- PELD — Reference for pediatric liver-transplant priority; it does not replace official processes.