Kidlongi 0-18

In the Kidlong application, designed for children growth professionals - doctors and nurses - and for parents, it is possible to present and put into practice the results of two growth studies that differ in methodology and application.
These are, on the one hand, the National Longitudinal Child Growth Survey carried out between 1980 and 2001 by Dr. Kálmán Joubert, led by an employee of the Population Research Institute of the CSO, based on the data of children followed and examined from 0 to 18 years of age. As a result, reference values ​​for height growth rate in children aged 3 to 18 years have been developed and published and are still used today by pediatric endocrinologists dealing with child growth. In addition, the reference growth averages and percentiles (body length / height, body weight, head circumference, chest circumference, skin fold sizes, etc.) of 0-18 year olds help the pediatrician to assess that the child's development is developing at a rate appropriate to his age. e.
The other study used in the application is the 2nd National Growth Study implemented by the Department of Anthropology of Eötvös Loránd University between 2003 and 2006, which included cross-sectional data of 3-18 year olds. This study was led by Éva Bodzsár and Annamária Zsákai. Their aim was to create a database on the most important indicators of body development, nutrition and physical status of Hungarian children aged 3-18 based on the recommendations of the WHO (1995). They sought to answer the question of whether the growth pattern of Hungarian children aged 3-18 has changed as a result of the significant social and economic changes that have taken place over the past twenty years; the positive secular trend still evident in the 1980s has continued, stopped, or reversed over the past twenty years.
With the results of these research programs, it is possible to monitor the growth and development of children. Assessing the physical development of infants, children, and adolescents is a key issue in pediatric diagnostics. This is especially true in the field of pediatric endocrinology, where the objective determination of the current development of the examined children is a determinant of the need for investigation and the compilation of the study plan.
Pediatricians and school physicians are able to estimate the child's physical development and nutritional status by using benchmarks developed on the basis of the most important indicators of physical development, by which they can contribute to the effectiveness of each therapeutic intervention. The application compares the measured data of children with the percentile curves calculated from the aggregated data of Hungarian children's recordings. Displays the results in graphical and tabular form.