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Prevention and treatment of malnutrition in hospitalized patient are essential to the patient care, For effective and safe nutritional supports, adequate nutritional assessment should be performed. The anthropometric measurement and laboratory parameters constitute the mainstay of the diagnosis of malnutrition, especially anthropometric measurements are perhaps the easiest and most available. But, in Korea standard anthropometric values for nutritional assessment of children are yet to be investigated. This study is primarily aimed to establish the standard anthropometric values for children. Weight, height, triceps skinfold thickness(TSF), midarm circumference(MAC) and arm-muscle circumference(AMC) etc. were measured for 325 females and males with ages between 0 to 17years. The standard anthropometric values of our study may be clinically applicable to the nutritional assessment of Korean children However, further studies may be needed to clarify the usefulness of these standard values.
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