The height-, weight- and BMI-for-age of preschool children from Nizhny Novgorod city, Russia, relative to the international growth references

Table 1 Russian preschool children mean height, weight and BMI z-scores relative to the three references

Reference	N	Height z-score			Weight z-score			BMI z-score
Reference	N	Mean	95 % CI		Mean	95 % CI		Mean	95 % CI
boys aged 3–4 years
WHO2006	643	0.13	0.04	0.20	0.17	0.10	0.25	0.13	0.10	0.21
USCDC2000	643	0.28*	0.22	0.37	0.15	0.07	0.24	−0.19	−0.29	−0.1
girls aged 3–4 years
WHO2006	599	0.15	0.07	0.24	0.17	0.09	0.24	0.09	0.01	0.17
USCDC2000	599	0.46*	0.37	0.54	0.18	0.10	0.26	−0.08	−0.17	0.02
boys aged 5–7 years
WHO2007	982	0.34*	0.28	0.42	0.23	0.16	0.29	−0.01	−0.08	0.06
USCDC2000	982	0.38	0.31	0.44	0.12	0.05	0.18	−0.2	−0.28	−0.11
girls aged 5–7 years
WHO2007	906	0.44*	0.37	0.51	0.24	0.18	0.31	−0.01	−0.07	0.06
USCDC2000	906	0.47	0.40	0.54	0.18	0.11	0.25	−0.07	−0.15	0.01

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