Height, weight, and lines of arrested growth in young Guatemalan children
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8314033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ricardo A Blanco, Ricardo Blanco (0000-0003-2344-2285, Yale University), Roy M Acheson, Cipriano Canosa, C A Canosa (Yale University), Joao B Salomon (Universidade de Brasília) |
| Year | 1974 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 39-47 |
| Publication date | 1974-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330400105 |
| PMID | 4361704 |
| OpenAlex | W2082251943 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 19 |
A cross‐sectional study of height, weight and skeletal maturity as judged from radiographs of hand and wrist, of 1,412 children under seven years of age (694 boys and 718 girls) living in rural Guatemala was performed. Height and weight were compared to standards prepared by the Institute of Nutrition of Central America and Panama (INCAP). Skeletal age was assessed by the Tanner‐Whitehouse and the Greulich and Pyle methods. All x‐rays were read by the senior author. The children surveyed were significantly shorter and lighter than well noruished Guatemalan children. Differences were evident by age six months and at a maximum by age five years. Both methods showed skeletal age to lag behind chronological age so that the Guatemalan rural children mature at slower rates than either the British children or the Ohio, U.S.A., children, from whom the two sets of standards were developed. Children of both sexes with radio‐opaque transverse lines at the metaphysis showed a consistent tendency to be shorter than children without such lines. Boys but not girls showed similar trends for weight. In general, the data are consistent with the view that the physical development in boys is more severely retarded by an adverse environment than that of girls
Anthropometry · Body height · Body weight · Bone age · Child Nutrition and Water Access · Demography · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Gerontology · Pediatrics
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| Unique citing works | 22 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2025 (50) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |