Sentence examples for a growth chart from inspiring English sources

Galton both coined the term and developed the statistics that allowed percentiles to be plotted on a growth chart.

Like many parents, Athena Calderone thought a growth chart would make a nice decorative addition to her son's room.

The Portable Pediatrician includes other useful features, like a growth chart and a guide to supplying your medicine cabinet properly.

Infants who quickly passed two or three major percentiles on a growth chart for a combined length and weight measure (a "diagnosis" a wary parent could easily make herself) were more at risk for obesity by age 10.

"Percentiles on a growth chart are very different from percentiles in academic achievement, but almost all parents want their children to be above the 50th percentile on the growth chart".

The study yielded, among other things, a growth chart of the sort that is familiar to every parent who brings a child to a pediatrician's office, except this one expanded the range of growth patterns considered normal and led to the general understanding that neither early nor late maturation of a child is, on its own, an aberration.

A birthweight below the tenth centile according to a customised growth chart and a ponderal index of ≤ 2.25 did not show a significant association with this outcome.

The objective of the study was to assess the factors that affect fetal growth and birthweight, and to derive coefficients for a customized growth chart applicable in an American population.

But stand him against a standard growth chart and he is almost a head shorter than he should be at his age.

In the context of a new growth chart, it is important to understand the differences that such a chart might make, compared to any previously used chart, because of the different source sample rather than because of any actual change in risk in the population.

A change in SD score of 0.67 SD units, would represent the distance between each centile line on a standard growth chart (i.e. 2nd, 9th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 91st, 98th centile lines).