Table 1.
Characteristics of the various health categories in the study population of children with Down syndrome.
Table 2.
Number of subjects and measurements for height and head circumference of 1,596 Dutch subjects with Trisomy 21, specified by the health categories.
Table 3.
Frequencies of measurements for height used for plotting the reference curves for Dutch children with Down syndrome, arranged by age and sex.
Table 4.
Mean height (cm) and standard deviation (SD) of the new references for length/height of Dutch children with Down syndrome, arranged by age and sex.
Table 5.
New head circumference (cm) references for 0–15 months in Dutch children with Down syndrome: values of L (skewness), M (median), and S (coefficient of variation)*, categorized by age and sex.
Figure 1.
Mean height (SDS) of the Dutch children with Down syndrome compared to the general population.
Comparison is made to the mean height of the national Dutch growth study (2009), calculated in standard deviation score (SDS).
Table 6.
Growth studies presenting mean final height (cm) of children with Down syndrome, with the applied inclusion and exclusion criteria, by country of origin.