[Agreement between center of disease control and word health organization reference growth]. / Concordância dos referenciais de crescimento propostos pelo Center of Disease Control e Organização Mundial de Saúde.

The objective this study was to verify the agreement of the guidelines recommended by CDC and WHO to evaluate the nutritional state. This is a cross-sectional study, which counted with the participation of 254 children of ages 3 to 11 months and 29 days from São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto, performed from June 2005 to July 2006. The anthropometric indexes were obtained using the software available on the CDC and WHO websites. The Kappa Test was used for nominal variables (length/age) and weighted-Kappa for ordinal variables (weight/length). It was found that there are differences between the CDC and WHO guidelines regarding the evaluation of child nutrition, with greater differences in the results for children of ages 3 to 6 months.

Concordância dos referenciais de crescimento propostos pelo Center of Disease Control e Organização Mundial de Saúde / Agreement between center of disease control and word health organization reference growth / Concordancia de los referenciales de crecimiento propuestos por el center of disease control y la organización mundial de la salud

O objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a concordância dos referenciais recomendados pelo Center of Disease Control (CDC) e pela Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS) na avaliação do estado nutricional. Trata-se de um estudo transversal, com participação de 254 crianças de 3 a 11 meses e 29 dias de idade de São Paulo e Ribeirão Preto, nos meses de junho de 2005 a julho de 2006. Os índices antropométricos foram calculados em programas disponibilizados nos sites do CDC e OMS, respectivamente. Aplicado Teste Kappa para as variáveis nominais (comprimento/idade) e Kappa-ponderado para variáveis ordinais (peso/comprimento) evidenciou-se que os referenciais CDC e OMS apresentam diferenças na avaliação nutricional infantil, sendo encontrados resultados com maior discordância nas crianças de 3 a 6 meses.

The objective this study was to verify the agreement of the guidelines recommended by CDC and WHO to evaluate the nutritional state. This is a cross-sectional study, which counted with the participation of 254 children of ages 3 to 11 months and 29 days from São Paulo and Ribeirão Preto, performed from June 2005 to July 2006. The anthropometric indexes were obtained using the software available on the CDC and WHO websites. The Kappa Test was used for nominal variables (length/age) and weighted-Kappa for ordinal variables (weight/length). It was found that there are differences between the CDC and WHO guidelines regarding the evaluation of child nutrition, with greater differences in the results for children of ages 3 to 6 months.

El objetivo deste estudio fue verificar la concordancia de referenciales recomendados por CDC y OMS en evaluación del estado nutricional. Se trata de un estudio transversal, con participación de 254 niños de 3 a 11 meses y 29 días, de São Paulo y Ribeirão Preto, entre junio 2005 y julio 2006. Los índices antropométricos fueron calculados en programas disponibilizados en los portales del CDC y de OMS, respectivamente. Se aplicó Test Kappa para variables nominales (altura/edad) y Kappa-ponderado para variables ordinales (peso/altura). Se evidenció que los referenciales CDC y OMS presentan diferencias en la evaluación nutricional infantil, encontrándose resultados de mayor discordancia en niños de 3 a 6 meses.