人体测量是确定儿童和青少年健康状况的第一步。临床医生需要标准化的协议以进行适当的评估和解释。因此,本研究旨在回顾国际和沙特国家指南的文献,以及此前在沙特儿童和青少年中进行的研究,为制定符合沙特2030愿景的沙特指南提供建议.在几个数据库中进行了系统搜索:Medline,PubMed,1990年1月至2021年1月,沙特数字图书馆和谷歌学者。Further,167项研究测量了沙特儿童/青少年的人体测量学;这些研究中有33项有助于建立/调整沙特生长图或特定截止值,或研究了代表性样本的生长趋势或调整了沙特使用的国际曲线。本审查要求更新生长图并建立沙特青少年人体测量学的标准截止值,以避免过度/漏报。这篇综述提供了有关资源的见解和建议,这些资源可用于为沙特儿童/青少年建立人体测量的国家指南。这项审查将帮助政策制定者和卫生部建立在沙特阿拉伯用于人体测量的标准化协议,这可能有助于检测营养不良。
Anthropometric measurements are the first step in determining the health status in children and adolescents. Clinicians require standardized protocols for proper assessment and interpretation. Therefore, this study aims to
review the literature of international and Saudi national guidelines and studies previously conducted in Saudi children and adolescents to provide recommendations to establish Saudi guidelines in line with the Saudi 2030 Vision. Systematic search was conducted in several databases: Medline, PubMed, Saudi Digital Library and Google Scholar from January 1990 to January 2021. Further, 167 studies measured anthropometrics in Saudi children/adolescents; 33 of these studies contributed to the establishment/adjustment of Saudi growth charts or specific cutoffs or studied the trend of growth in representative samples or adjusted the international curves to be used in Saudis. This
review warrants updating growth charts and establishing the standard cutoffs of Saudi adolescent anthropometrics to avoid over/underreporting. This
review provides insights and recommendations regarding the resources that can be used to establish national guidelines in anthropometric measurements for Saudi children/adolescents. This
review will help policymakers and the Ministry of Health to establish standardized protocols to be used in Saudi Arabia for anthropometric measurements that may assist in detecting malnutrition.