A TABLE OF NUTRITIONAL INDEX OF CHILDREN
- VernacularTitle:儿童营养状况指数表
- Author:
Deting WANG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
child nutritional status child's nutritionl index
- From:
Acta Nutrimenta Sinica
1956;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
I have found a rule that when a child's body height increases every 3.8cm the weight gain is 1 kg, and this is true in the period before the child's height reaching to 125cm. According to this rule, a standard body weight may be formulated as follows:Standard body weight(kg) = 3+where 3 is the mean neonatal weight in kg, 50 is the mean neonatal height in cm.Then, for the aim of evaluating the nutritional status of a child, a nutritional index of a child (NIC) was proposed.I proposed 100 to be the standard value of NIC. The nutritional index of an individual child actually represents the ratio of the actual body weight to the standard weight.For the practice, one can find the value of NIC from the given table if the body weight and height of a child are known. So it may be useful in nurseries and pediatric clinics.
