Earlier this month, guidance advised that children's height should bemeasured to the nearest half a centimetre (Children Now, 18-24January).
However Tam Fry, acting chair of the Child Growth Foundation, said themove would result in the change in children's weight being over- orunderestimated.
Professor David Hall, former President of the Royal College ofPaediatrics and Child Health, also said he had concerns and was lookinginto the issue.
"It should be possible to measure more accurately than to the nearesthalf centimetre," he said.
Professor Tim Cole of the Institute of Child Health agreed there was noreason children's height should not be measured accurately, but addedthat discrepancies would only skew results for individuals, not for thepopulation as a whole.
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