Members of the who Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group

World Health Organization Working Group on Infant Growth. An evaluation of infant growth. Geneva: World Health Organization 1994.

World Health Organization Working Group on Infant Growth. An evaluation of infant growth: The use and interpretation of anthropometry in infants. Bull WHO 1995;73:165–74.

de Onis M Yip R. The WHO growth chart: Historical considerations and current scientific issues. In: Porrini M Walter P , eds. Nutrition in pregnancy and growth. Bibl Nutr Dieta 1996;53:74–89.

World Health Organization. Physical status: the use and interpretation of anthropometry. Report of a WHO Expert Committee. Technical Report Series No. 854. Geneva: World Health Organization 1995.

de Onis M Habicht JP . Anthropometric reference data for international use: Recommendations from a WHO Expert Committee. Am J Clin Nutr 1996;64:650–8.

World Health Assembly. Infant and Young Child Nutrition. Resolution WHA47.5 of the 47th World Health Assembly, 11th Plenary Meeting, Geneva, 9 May 1994.

de Onis M Garza C Habicht JP . Time for a new growth reference. Pediatrics 1997;100(5). Available at http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/100/5/e8.

WHO Working Group on the Growth Reference Protocol and WHO Task Force on Methods for the Natural Regulation of Fertility. Growth patterns of breastfed infants in seven countries. Acta Paediatr 2000;89:215–22.

WHO Working Group on the Growth Reference Protocol and WHO Task Force on Methods for the Natural Regulation of Fertility. Growth of healthy infants and the timing, type, and frequency of complementary foods. Am J Clin Nutr 2002;76:620–7.

Owusu WB Lartey A de Onis M Onyango AW Frongillo EA . Factors associated with unconstrained growth among affluent Ghanaian children. Acta Paediatr, in press.

Bhandari N Bahl R Taneja S de Onis M Bhan MK . Growth performance of affluent Indian children is similar to that in developed countries. Bull WHO 2002;80:189–95.

Mohamed AJ Onyango AW de Onis M Prakash N Mabry RM Alasfoor DH . Socioeconomic predictors of unconstrained child growth in Muscat, Oman. East Mediterr Health J, in press.

Barros FC Victora CG Vaughan JP Tomasi E Horta BL Cesar JA Menezes MB Halpern R Post CL del Mar Garcia M. The epidemiologic transition in maternal and child health in a Brazilian city, 1982–1993: A Comparison of two population-based cohorts. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol 2001;15:4–11.

Araújo CL Albernaz E Tomasi E Victora CG , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Brazil. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1)(suppl 1):S53–9.

Lartey A Owusu WB Sagoe-Moses I Gomez V Sagoe-Moses C , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Ghana. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1)(suppl 1):S60–5.

Bhandari N Taneja S Rongsen T Chetia J Sharma P Bahl R Kashyap DK Bhan MK , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in India. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1)(suppl 1):S66–71.

Baerug A Bjoerneboe GEA Tufte E Norum KR , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Norway. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1) (suppl 1):S72–7.

Prakash NS Mabry RM Mohamed AJ Alasfoor D , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in Oman. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1) (suppl 1):S78–83.

Dewey KG Cohen RJ Nommsen-Rivers LA Heinig MJ , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Implementation of the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study in the United States. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1)(suppl 1):S84–9.

de Onis M Onyango AW Van den Broeck J Chumlea WC Martorell R , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Measurement and standardization protocols for anthropometry used in the construction of a new international growth reference. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1)(suppl 1):S27–36.

Onyango AW Pinol AJ de Onis M , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Managing data for a multicountry longitudinal study: Experience from the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1)(suppl 1):S46–52.

Wijnhoven TMA de Onis M Onyango AW Wang T Bjoerneboe GEA Bhandari N Lartey A Al Rashidi B , for the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study Group. Assessment of gross motor development in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study. Food Nutr Bull 2004;25(1)(suppl 1):S37–45.

Meyer MB . Breast-feeding and smoking. Lancet 1979;1:975–6.

Vio F Salazar G Infante C. Smoking during pregnancy and lactation and its effects on breast-milk volume. Am J Clin Nutr 1991;54:1011–6.

Mansbach IK Greenbaum CW Sulkes J. Onset and duration of breastfeeding among Israeli mothers: Relationships with smoking and type of delivery. Soc Sci Med 1991;33:1391–7.

Kramer MS . Determinants of low birth weight: Methodological assessment and meta-analysis. Bull WHO 1987;65:663–737.

Victora CG Morris SS Barros FC Horta BL Weiderpass E Tomasi E. Breast-feeding and growth in Brazilian infants. Am J Clin Nutr 1998,67:452–8.

Cohen RJ Brown KH Canahuati J Rivera LL Dewey KG . Effects of age of introduction of complementary foods on infant breast milk intake, total energy intake, and growth: A Randomised intervention study in Honduras. Lancet 1994;344:288–93.

Council for International Organizations of Medical Sciences/World Health Organization. International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects. Geneva: CIOMS/WHO 1993.

de Onis M Wijnhoven T Onyango AW . Worldwide practices in child growth monitoring. J Pediatr, in press.