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  What were the major changes to the growth charts in 2000?

  What were the major changes to the growth charts in 2000?

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Ans) In 2000, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published new growth charts, replacing the 1977 version.

The CDC changes
- Set 1 includes the 5th to 95th percentiles; set 2, the 3rd to 97th percentiles.

-deficiencies of the older charts have been corrected, such overrepresentation of bottlefed infants and the reliance on a local data.

The disjunction between length and height, when moving from the infant curves to those for older children, no longer exists. The charts include curves for plotting BMI for ages 2-20 yr rather than weight for height, facilitating identification of obesity.

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