Growth in some physical dimensions in relation to adolescent growth spurt among rural Indian children
Growth in some physical dimensions in relation to adolescent growth spurt among rural Indian children
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DOI：
10.1080/030144600282244
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发表时间：
2000-03-01
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1.7
通讯作者：
Kanade, A
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作者：
Rao, S;Joshi, S;Kanade, A
除了体重和身高之外的测量很少用于青少年生长评估。有必要检查其他身体维度的变化，特别是与身高突增相关的变化，因为身高增长对于评估青少年生长具有重要意义。因此，本研究报告了四种此类测量的数据，即。在一项为期 3 年的半纵向生长研究中，对印度农村男孩 (n = 587) 和女孩 (n = 433) 进行了足长、坐高、腿长和肩宽以及身高的测量，以检查他们的最大增量与身高突增的关系。我们的分析表明，男孩和女孩在这些身体维度上的突增顺序是相同的，即。脚长和腿长的突增发生在身高峰值速度年龄之前（男孩14.3岁，女孩12.1岁），而坐高和肩宽的突增发生在达到身高峰值速度之后。在这个序列中，脚长是第一个达到峰值的（14 岁男孩，11 岁女孩），而肩宽是最后一个达到峰值的（16 岁男孩，14 岁女孩）。因此，观察到女孩（3 岁）第一次爆发和最后一次爆发之间的持续时间比男孩（2 岁）更长，除了生物学差异之外，部分原因可能是农村女孩受到的差别待遇。与印度富裕儿童和英国儿童相比，农村儿童的坐高和腿长显着较低（p < 0.01），这表明农村社区普遍存在的营养不良影响了线性生长的所有组成部分。
Measurements other than weight and height are rarely used in adolescent growth assessment. It is necessary to examine changes in other physical dimensions especially in relation to spurt in height as stature growth has a significance in the assessment of adolescent growth. The present study, therefore, reports data on four such measurements viz. foot length, sitting height, leg length and shoulder width along with height in a semi-longitudinal growth study carried out over a 3 year period, on rural Indian boys (n = 587) and girls (n = 433), to examine the occurrence of their maximum increments in relation to spurt in height. Our analysis shows that the sequence of spurt in these physical dimensions is the same in the case of boys and girls, viz. spurt in foot length and leg length occurs before age at peak height velocity (14.3 yr-boys, 12.1 yr-girls) while that for sitting height and shoulder width occurs after attaining the peak height Velocity. While foot length is the first one to reach peak (14 yr-boys, 11 yr-girls), shoulder width is the last one (16 yr-boys, 14 yr-girls) in this sequence. Thus the duration between the first spurt and the last spurt was observed to be larger in case of girls (3 yr) as compared to boys (2 yr) and apart from biological differences it could be partly due to the differential treatment received by rural girls. Sitting heights and leg lengths of rural children were significantly (p < 0.01) lower compared to Indian well-off and British children suggest that undernutrition prevailing in rural community affects all components of linear growth.