Height Velocity Percentiles in Indian Children Aged 5-17 Years.

Objective: To assess height velocity and develop height velocity percentiles in 5-17-year-old Indian children; and to study the magnitude and age at peak height velocity.

Design: Mixed longitudinal study.

Setting: Private schools at Pune and Delhi.

Association of dental and skeletal fluorosis with calcium intake and serum vitamin D concentration in adolescents from a region endemic for fluorosis.

Context: Fluorosis is controlled by the duration of fluoride exposure and calcium and Vitamin D nutrition status.

Aim: To examine (a) prevalence of dental and skeletal fluorosis in adolescents from upper, middle, and lower socioeconomic strata (SES) and (b) association of fluorosis with calcium intake and Vitamin D status.

Settings And Design: A cross-sectional study conducted in 10-13.

Dietary calcium intake influences the relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25OHD) concentration and parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentration.

Objectives: To investigate whether dietary calcium intake will modify the relationship between serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D3 (25OHD) with intact serum parathyroid hormone (PTH) concentrations in apparently healthy Indian adolescents.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Setting And Participants: Apparently healthy adolescents aged 10-14 years (n=181), from Gujarat, western India.

Growth charts from controversy to consensus.

Growth follows a specific set of patterns inspite of variability in children. This led to the development of growth charts. As growth provides an interplay of many factors, growth chart helps monitor growth and diagnose disease.