@article{article_582244, title={HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE PERCENTILES FOR 0-3-YEAR-OLD INFANTS IN TURKEY: THE RESULTS OF A NATIONWIDE GROWTH STUDY}, journal={Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi}, volume={43}, pages={70–84}, year={2019}, url={https://izlik.org/JA23JZ75RL}, author={Ertuğrul, Berna and Duyar, İzzet}, keywords={Growth References,Growth Percentiles,Head Circumference,LMS Method}, abstract={<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:2.0cm;margin-bottom: 6.0pt;margin-left:2.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:14.2pt;line-height:normal"> <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype",serif; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-US">Population-based growth studies are important to demonstrate social, cultural, and medical milieu of the societies. The fact that there is no nationwide head circumference growth references of Turkish children is a significant deficiency. In this study, we aimed to create head growth references for 0-3-year-old children living in good conditions in Turkey. Within this scope, a total of 2061 infants and children with 1029 being boys and 1032 girls were examined in seven metropolitan city (Istanbul, Ankara, İzmir, Adana, Samsun, Diyarbakır, and Erzurum) in Turkey. LMS method was used to create percentile curves. According to the data obtained, it can be said that children of our country who grow in optimal and/or sub-optimal conditions have somewhat larger head circumference compared to their peers from the USA, but the difference is relatively low. Great similarity between the results of this study, which was conducted as multicenter, and previous reference studies performed in Istanbul is remarkable. <o:p> </o:p> </span> </p>}, number={1}