What does that mean? I'm still worried! A. If your baby is "following the curve" of the growth chart, she's paralleling one of the percentile lines on the chart, and the odds are good that her ...

A head that's smaller than average may be a sign that the brain is not developing properly or has stopped growing. Percentiles are measurements that show where a child is compared with other kids. On ...

Learn how following the WHO growth curves may misdiagnose Inuit children's head sizes, leading to health disparities.

Parents are a competitive bunch. So when the pediatrician whips out a growth chart and ranks baby's height and weight in percentiles, it's easy to wonder if something's wrong. But growth ...

Inuit children in Nunavut, Canada, are being overdiagnosed for macrocephaly and underdiagnosed for microcephaly, two ...

All values must be entered in order to calculate percentiles for Blood Pressure and Height. A percentile shows the relative position of the child's measurement (such as Blood Pressure or Height) among ...

Guided by the findings, the authors then reviewed a random set of 137 notes to see how many SGA babies were picked up antenatally by using customised growth charts. Results Our study showed that 50% ...