Abstract
Objective: To modify the results of the longitudinal study on growth in Navarra (NA 09) by censoring the obesity cases from the population sample as well as to perform a comparative analysis with the most qualified Spanish and international growth curves. Materials and methods: all the cases with obesity according to Cole et al. standards have been censored out of the 930 participants in NA-09, the final sample being 782 participants (371 males and 411 females). The results obtained were compared with the Spanish studies by Serra-Majem et al. (enKid study), Carrascosa et al. (ESP 08), and NA 09, which do not censor the obesity cases, and with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC, 2000) table, and the WHO tables (WHO, 2007) that apply depuration criteria of the poorly healthy anthropometric data (obesity and malnutrition). Results: We present the mean values adjusted by height, weight, and BMI with their percentile distribution for both genders. When comparing with the Spanish studies, we observe that the evolutionary values of the 3 d
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