Summary

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommend that health care providers in primary care settings

• Use the World Health Organization (WHO) growth standard charts to monitor growth of children aged birth to 2 years regardless of type of feeding, in the United States (Grummer-Strawn, Reinold, Krebs, 2010).
• Use the 2000 CDC growth reference charts to monitor growth of children and teens aged 2 to 20 years in the United States (Grummer-Strawn, Reinold, Krebs, 2010).

The CDC growth charts provide health care providers with a tool to assess the growth of U.S. children and teens aged 2 to 20 years.