Figure 1

Mean height-for-age by age for Acrelândia in comparison to mean height-for-age by age for Brazil and Latin America and the Caribbean (PAHO/AMRO) region ¹ . 1. Height-for-age Z scores in all curves were calculated according to the WHO growth references [13, 14]. Height-for-age Z score curves are compared to the WHO growth references, whose median height-for-age values by age form the reference horizontal line at 0.00. 2. Curves estimated based on information from the WHO Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition [20]. 3. Curve estimated based on restricted cubic spline regression models.