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Mercedes de Onis; Cecilia Martínez-Costa; Angeles Montal; Georges Nguefack-Tsague; Francisco Núñez; J Brines
Association between WHO cut-offs for childhood overweight and obesity and cardiometabolic risk.
Mercedes de Onis
Update on the implementation of the WHO child growth standards.
Mercedes de Onis; Chessa Lutter; Adelheid W Onyango; Amani Siyam; Monika Blössner; Elaine Borghi
Worldwide implementation of the WHO Child Growth Standards.

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2013: Mercedes de Onis; Cecilia Martínez-Costa; Angeles Montal; Georges Nguefack-Tsague; Francisco Núñez; J Brines
Association between WHO cut-offs for childhood overweight and obesity and cardiometabolic risk.
Public health nutrition 2013;16(4):625-30.
2013: Mercedes de Onis
Update on the implementation of the WHO child growth standards.
World review of nutrition and dietetics 2013;106():75-82.
2012: Mercedes de Onis; Chessa Lutter; Adelheid W Onyango; Amani Siyam; Monika Blössner; Elaine Borghi
Worldwide implementation of the WHO Child Growth Standards.
Public health nutrition 2012;15(9):1603-10.
2012: Ugyen Zangmo; Mercedes de Onis; Tandin Dorji
The nutritional status of children in Bhutan: results from the 2008 National Nutrition Survey and trends over time.
BMC pediatrics 2012;12():151.
2012: Yanina Sguassero; Mercedes de Onis; Ana María Bonotti; Guillermo Carroli
Community-based supplementary feeding for promoting the growth of children under five years of age in low and middle income countries.
Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) 2012;6():CD005039.
2012: Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner; Elaine Borghi
Prevalence and trends of stunting among pre-school children, 1990-2020.
Public health nutrition 2012;15(1):142-8.
2011: Chessa K Lutter; Marie T Ruel; Mary Arimond; Monika Blössner; Bernadette M E G Daelmans; Mercedes de Onis; Megan Deitchler; Kathryn G Dewey; Monica T Kothari; Elaine Borghi
Undernutrition, poor feeding practices, and low coverage of key nutrition interventions.
Pediatrics 2011;128(6):e1418-27.
2011: Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango; Ellen Piwoz; Amani Siyam; Elaine Borghi; Cutberto Garza
Comparison of the World Health Organization growth velocity standards with existing US reference data.
Pediatrics 2011;128(1):e18-26.
2011: Adelheid W Onyango; Amani Siyam; Jan Van den Broeck; Cora Luiza Araújo; Anne Baerug; Nita Bhandari; Elaine Borghi; Mercedes de Onis; Kathryn G Dewey; Cutberto Garza; Anna Lartey; Ali Jaffer Mohamed; Laurie Nommsen-Rivers
Post-partum weight change patterns in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study.
Maternal & child nutrition 2011;7(3):228-40.
2010: Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner; Elaine Borghi
Global prevalence and trends of overweight and obesity among preschool children.
The American journal of clinical nutrition 2010;92(5):1257-64.
2010: Mercedes de Onis; Barbara Woynarowska
[WHO child growth standards for children 0-5 years and the possibility of their implementation in Poland].
Medycyna wieku rozwojowego 2010;14(2):87-94.
2010: Victora Cesar; Mercedes de Onis; Pedro Curi Hallal; Monika Blössner; Roger Shrimpton
Worldwide timing of growth faltering: revisiting implications for interventions.
Pediatrics 2010;125(3):e473-80.
2008: Robert E Black; Lindsay H Allen; Zulfiqar A Bhutta; Laura E Caulfield; Mercedes de Onis; Majid Ezzati; Colin D Mathers; Juan Rivera
Maternal and child undernutrition: global and regional exposures and health consequences.
Lancet 2008;371(9608):243-60.
2008: Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango
WHO child growth standards.
Lancet 2008;371(9608):204.
2008: Hong Yang; Mercedes de Onis
Algorithms for converting estimates of child malnutrition based on the NCHS reference into estimates based on the WHO Child Growth Standards.
BMC pediatrics 2008;8():19.
2007: Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango; Elaine Borghi; Amani Siyam; Chizuru Nishida; Jonathan Siekmann
Development of a WHO growth reference for school-aged children and adolescents.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2007;85(9):660-7.
2007: Nita Bhandari; Mercedes de Onis
The current status of international standards for child growth.
The Indian journal of medical research 2007;126(2):94-6.
2007: Nancy F Butte; Cutberto Garza; Mercedes de Onis
Evaluation of the feasibility of international growth standards for school-aged children and adolescents.
The Journal of nutrition 2007;137(1):153-7.
2007: Adelheid W Onyango; Mercedes de Onis; Margherita Caroli; Uzma Shah; Yanina Sguassero; Nora Redondo; Berenise Carroli
Field-testing the WHO child growth standards in four countries.
The Journal of nutrition 2007;137(1):149-52.
2007: Mercedes de Onis; Cutberto Garza; Adelheid W Onyango; Elaine Borghi
Comparison of the WHO child growth standards and the CDC 2000 growth charts.
The Journal of nutrition 2007;137(1):144-8.
2006: Nancy E Butte; Cutberto Garza; Mercedes de Onis
Evaluation of the feasibility of international growth standards for school-aged children and adolescents.
Food and nutrition bulletin 2006;27(4 Suppl Growth Standard):S169-74.
2006: Gilberto N O Brito; Mercedes de Onis
Growth status and academic performance in Brazilian school age children: growth retardation impairs mathematical, but not reading and spelling abilities.
Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria 2006;64(4):921-5.
2006: Pablo Duran; Benjamin Caballero; Mercedes de Onis
The association between stunting and overweight in Latin American and Caribbean preschool children.
Food and nutrition bulletin 2006;27(4):300-5.
2006: Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango; Elaine Borghi; Cutberto Garza; Hong Yang
Comparison of the World Health Organization (WHO) Child Growth Standards and the National Center for Health Statistics/WHO international growth reference: implications for child health programmes.
Public health nutrition 2006;9(7):942-7.
2006: Maria Neira; Mercedes de Onis
The Spanish strategy for nutrition, physical activity and the prevention of obesity.
The British journal of nutrition 2006;96 Suppl 1():S8-11.
2006: Elaine Borghi; Mercedes de Onis; Cutberto Garza; J Van den Broeck; Edward A Frongillo; Laurence M Grummer-Strawn; S Van Buuren; H Pan; L Molinari; Reynaldo Martorell; Adelheid W Onyango; Jose Martines
Construction of the World Health Organization child growth standards: selection of methods for attained growth curves.
Statistics in medicine 2006;25(2):247-65.
2005: Anna Milman; Edward A Frongillo; Mercedes de Onis; Ji-Yun Hwang
Differential improvement among countries in child stunting is associated with long-term development and specific interventions.
The Journal of nutrition 2005;135(6):1415-22.
2005: Maria Neira; Mercedes de Onis
Preventing obesity: a public health priority in Spain.
Lancet 2005;365(9468):1386.
2005: Y Sguassero; Mercedes de Onis; Guillermo Carroli
Community-based supplementary feeding for promoting the growth of young children in developing countries.
Cochrane database of systematic reviews (Online) 2005;(4):CD005039.
2004: Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner; Elaine Borghi; Richard Morris; Edward A Frongillo
Methodology for estimating regional and global trends of child malnutrition.
International journal of epidemiology 2004;33(6):1260-70.
2004: William B Owusu; Anna Lartey; Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango; Edward A Frongillo
Factors associated with unconstrained growth among affluent Ghanaian children.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) 2004;93(8):1115-9.
2004: Laura E Caulfield; Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner; Robert E Black
Undernutrition as an underlying cause of child deaths associated with diarrhea, pneumonia, malaria, and measles.
The American journal of clinical nutrition 2004;80(1):193-8.
2004: Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner; Elaine Borghi; Edward A Frongillo; Richard Morris
Estimates of global prevalence of childhood underweight in 1990 and 2015.
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association 2004;291(21):2600-6.
2004: A J Mohamed; Adelheid W Onyango; Mercedes de Onis; N Prakash; R M Mabry; Deena Alasfoor
Socioeconomic predictors of unconstrained child growth in Muscat, Oman.
Eastern Mediterranean health journal = La revue de santé de la Méditerranée orientale = al-Majallah al-ṣiḥḥīyah li-sharq al-mutawassiṭ 2004;10(3):295-302.
2004: Mercedes de Onis; Trudy M A Wijnhoven; Adelheid W Onyango
Worldwide practices in child growth monitoring.
The Journal of pediatrics 2004;144(4):461-5.
2004: Mercedes de Onis; Cesar Victora
Growth charts for breastfed babies.
Jornal de pediatria 2004;80(2):85-7.
2004: Adelheid W Onyango; Alain J Pinol; Mercedes de Onis
Managing data for a multicountry longitudinal study: experience from the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study.
Food and nutrition bulletin 2004;25(1 Suppl):S46-52.
2004: Trudy M Wijnhoven; Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango; Tracey Wang; Gunn-Elin A Bjoerneboe; Nita Bhandari; Anna Lartey; Badriya al Rashidi
Assessment of gross motor development in the WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study.
Food and nutrition bulletin 2004;25(1 Suppl):S37-45.
2004: Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango; Jan Van den Broeck; W Cameron Chumlea; Reynaldo Martorell
Measurement and standardization protocols for anthropometry used in the construction of a new international growth reference.
Food and nutrition bulletin 2004;25(1 Suppl):S27-36.
2004: Mercedes de Onis; Cutberto Garza; Cesar Victora; Adelheid W Onyango; Edward A Frongillo; Jose Martines
The WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study: planning, study design, and methodology.
Food and nutrition bulletin 2004;25(1 Suppl):S15-26.
2004: Cutberto Garza; Mercedes de Onis
Rationale for developing a new international growth reference.
Food and nutrition bulletin 2004;25(1 Suppl):S5-14.
2003: Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner
The World Health Organization Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition: methodology and applications.
International journal of epidemiology 2003;32(4):518-26.
2003: Mercedes de Onis
Commentary: Socioeconomic inequalities and child growth.
International journal of epidemiology 2003;32(4):503-5.
2003: José Villar; Mario Merialdi; Metin Gulmezoglu; Edgardo Abalos; Guillermo Carroli; Regina Kulier; Mercedes de Onis
Characteristics of randomized controlled trials included in systematic reviews of nutritional interventions reporting maternal morbidity, mortality, preterm delivery, intrauterine growth restriction and small for gestational age and birth weight outcomes.
The Journal of nutrition 2003;133(5 Suppl 2):1632S-1639S.
2003: Mario Merialdi; Guillermo Carroli; José Villar; Edgardo Abalos; Metin Gulmezoglu; Regina Kulier; Mercedes de Onis
Nutritional interventions during pregnancy for the prevention or treatment of impaired fetal growth: an overview of randomized controlled trials.
The Journal of nutrition 2003;133(5 Suppl 2):1626S-1631S.
2003: José Villar; Mario Merialdi; Metin Gulmezoglu; Edgardo Abalos; Guillermo Carroli; Regina Kulier; Mercedes de Onis
Nutritional interventions during pregnancy for the prevention or treatment of maternal morbidity and preterm delivery: an overview of randomized controlled trials.
The Journal of nutrition 2003;133(5 Suppl 2):1606S-1625S.
2003: Mercedes de Onis; Adelheid W Onyango
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2000 growth charts and the growth of breastfed infants.
Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) 2003;92(4):413-9.
2003: Mercedes de Onis; Cutberto Garza; Cesar Victora
The WHO Multicentre Growth Reference Study: strategy for developing a new international growth reference.
Forum of nutrition 2003;56():238-40.
2002: Isabel D Fernandez; John H Himes; Mercedes de Onis
Prevalence of nutritional wasting in populations: building explanatory models using secondary data.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2002;80(4):282-91.
2002: Nita Bhandari; Rajiv Bahl; Sunita Taneja; Mercedes de Onis; Maharaj K Bhan
Growth performance of affluent Indian children is similar to that in developed countries.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2002;80(3):189-95.
2001: Mercedes de Onis; P Dasgupta; S Saha; D Sengupta; Monika Blössner
The National Center for Health Statistics reference and the growth of Indian adolescent boys.
The American journal of clinical nutrition 2001;74(2):248-53.
2001: R Shrimpton; Cesar Victora; Mercedes de Onis; R C Lima; Monika Blössner; G Clugston
Worldwide timing of growth faltering: implications for nutritional interventions.
Pediatrics 2001;107(5):E75.
2000: Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner
Prevalence and trends of overweight among preschool children in developing countries.
The American journal of clinical nutrition 2000;72(4):1032-9.
2000: Mercedes de Onis
Measuring nutritional status in relation to mortality.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000;78(10):1271-4.
2000: Mercedes de Onis; Edward A Frongillo; Monika Blössner
Is malnutrition declining? An analysis of changes in levels of child malnutrition since 1980.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2000;78(10):1222-33.
1999: Cutberto Garza; Mercedes de Onis
A new international growth reference for young children.
The American journal of clinical nutrition 1999;70(1):169S-72S.
1998: Cesar Victora; Denise Petrucci Gigante; Aluisio Barros; C A Monteiro; Mercedes de Onis
[Estimating the prevalence of height for age deficits based on the prevalence of weight for age deficits among Brazilian children].
Revista de saúde pública 1998;32(4):321-7.
1998: Cesar Victora; SS Morris; Fernando C Barros; Mercedes de Onis; Ray Yip
The NCHS reference and the growth of breast- and bottle-fed infants.
The Journal of nutrition 1998;128(7):1134-8.
1998: Mercedes de Onis; José Villar; Metin Gulmezoglu
Nutritional interventions to prevent intrauterine growth retardation: evidence from randomized controlled trials.
European journal of clinical nutrition 1998;52 Suppl 1():S83-93.
1998: Mercedes de Onis; Monika Blössner; José Villar
Levels and patterns of intrauterine growth retardation in developing countries.
European journal of clinical nutrition 1998;52 Suppl 1():S5-15.
1997: Edward A Frongillo; Mercedes de Onis; K M Hanson
Socioeconomic and demographic factors are associated with worldwide patterns of stunting and wasting of children.
The Journal of nutrition 1997;127(12):2302-9.
1997: Mercedes de Onis; Cutberto Garza; Jean-Pierre Habicht
Time for a new growth reference.
Pediatrics 1997;100(5):E8.
1997: Zuguo Mei; Laurence M Grummer-Strawn; Mercedes de Onis; Ray Yip
The development of a MUAC-for-height reference, including a comparison to other nutritional status screening indicators.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1997;75(4):333-41.
1997: Mercedes de Onis; Ray Yip; Zuguo Mei
The development of MUAC-for-age reference data recommended by a WHO Expert Committee.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1997;75(1):11-8.
1996: Mercedes de Onis; J P Habicht
Anthropometric reference data for international use: recommendations from a World Health Organization Expert Committee.
The American journal of clinical nutrition 1996;64(4):650-8.
1996: Mercedes de Onis; Ray Yip
The WHO growth chart: historical considerations and current scientific issues.
Bibliotheca nutritio et dieta 1996;(53):74-89.