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We investigated the applicability of the WHO standards of length\/height and weight to a cohort representing middle-class children in Japan.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"j_jpem-2017-0303_s_998_w2aab3b7c35b1b6b1aab1c16b2Aa\"><jats:title>Methods:<\/jats:title><jats:p>A cohort of children aged 0\u20135 years (3430 boys, 3025 girls) in the Tokyo Child Care Center Survey consecutively recruited from 2007 to 2013 were studied. Age- and sex-specific z-scores of length\/height, weight and weight for length\/height were calculated relative to either the WHO standards or the Japanese 2000 Growth References (nationally representative cross sectional survey data).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"j_jpem-2017-0303_s_997_w2aab3b7c35b1b6b1aab1c16b3Aa\"><jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Compared with the WHO standards, Japanese children at birth, 1, 3, 5 years were shorter (length\/height standard deviation score [SDS] \u22120.26, \u22120.82, \u22120.81, \u22120.63 for boys, and \u22120.15, \u22120.67, \u22120.84, \u22120.62 for girls, respectively) and lighter (weight SDS \u22120.62, \u22120.36, \u22120.34, \u22120.42 for boys and \u22120.60, \u22120.17, \u22120.29, \u22120.43 for girls, respectively). Weight for length\/height showed smaller differences at various length\/height points (SDS \u22120.05 to 0.15 for boys, 0.01 to 0.29 for girls, respectively).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"j_jpem-2017-0303_s_996_w2aab3b7c35b1b6b1aab1c16b4Aa\"><jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title><jats:p>Adoption of the WHO standards would substantially alter the prevalence of short stature, underweight and overweight in Japanese children 0\u20135 years of age. 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