Percentile distributions of waist circumference for 7-19-year-old Polish children and adolescents.

The aim of the study was to develop waist circumference (WC) percentiles in Polish children and youth and to compare these with the results obtained in other countries. The study comprised a random group of 5663 Polish children aged 7-18 years. Smoothed WC percentile curves were computed using the LMS method.

Blood pressure references for Polish children and adolescents.

The objective of this study was to develop age- and gender-specific reference ranges for blood pressure in a large national database on blood pressure levels throughout childhood and adolescence in young Poles. A prospective cross-sectional study was performed in 2002-2005 in the representative sampling sites, selected randomly from the entire Poland. Altogether, 6,447 school pupils, aged 7-18 years, were involved in the study of which 3,176 were boys and 3,271 were girls.

[Blood pressure of children and adolescents in the Mazowiecki and Wielkopolski provinces].

The aim of the study is evaluation of occurrence of elevated blood pressure values in Wielkopolskie and Mazowieckie provinces. The population studied was a representative sample of children & adolescents age 7-18 (1905 in Mazowieckie and 1805 from Wielkopolskie province). The methodology of BP measurement and classification of hypertension followed the guidelines of the III Report of the Task Force on Blood Pressure Control in Children.

[Anthropometric methods in evaluation of somatic development of children with metabolic diseases].

Somatic development is determined by genetic and environmental factors. Morbidity, especially in chronic metabolic diseases, is considered as one of the environmental factors which significantly influences somatic development. Chronic diseases may affect growth by five mechanisms: nutritional factors, protein loss, chronic inflammation, tissue anoxia with acid-base disturbances and by drugs used in treatment.

[Somatic development assessment of children with food allergy treated with milk free diet].

The aim of our study was to evaluate the influence of one year elimination diets on the somatic development and the nutritional status of children. 25 patients from the Department of Immunology of the Institute of Mother and Child aged 1-7 years with cow's milk allergy were investigated. The children were divided into two groups: 10 children received hydrolizated casein formula and 15 children received soya protein formula.