Table 1.
Background characteristics of the study populations in 1997 and 2009.
Table 2.
Reference values for height-for age: mean height and standard deviation (SD) of Turkish and Moroccan boys and girls in The Netherlands in 2009.
Fig 1.
Height difference with 1997 (horizontal line at 0 cm) of Turkish and Moroccan boys (A) and girls (B) aged 0–18 y in 2009.
Fig 2.
Height difference with Dutch children (horizontal line at 0 cm) of Turkish and Moroccan boys (A) and girls (B) aged 0–18 y in 2009.
Fig 3.
Different height-for-age references for boys (A) and girls (B): Dutch 2009 [6], Dutch Turks 2009, Turkish Turks in Ankara 2006 [22], Dutch Turks 1997 [3], and WHO 2007 [21].