A comparison between the 1985 proposed Food and Nutrition Research Institute-Philippine Pediatric Society (FNRI-PPS) and the World Health Organization (WHO) international anthropometric standards in the assessment of nutrition status among preschool children aged 12-72 months
Evaluation of nutritional status by anthropometry is critically dependent not only on the indicator and cut-off values being used, but most importantly on what anthropometric standards, the weights and heights should be compared with. In the Philippines, the newly developed 1985 FNRI-PPS standards h...
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