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KMID : 0351619740150020271
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Kyungpook Medical Journal
1974 Volume.15 No. 2 p.271 ~ p.282
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The Study of Physical Development in Infancy
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安斗洪/Ahn, Doo Hong
金鍾煥/崔正憲/金永植/Kim Jong Hwan/Choy, Chung Hun/Kim, Yung Sik
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Abstract
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Iron deficiency anemia among children is quite widespread in developing countries and most often, occurs in children 6 months to 2 years of age.
Iron deficiency has been implicated as a factor in increased susceptability to infection and retarded growth and development and, has been associated with learning and emotional problems.
The present study was designed to determine the incidence of anemia in well babies (4 months to 18 months) registered in Daegu M.C.H. Center Well-Baby Clinic and compare two groups of anemic and non-anemic infants with their physical development.
Hemoglobin was measured spectrophotometrically as cyanmethemoglobin method. Blood for hematocrit determination was collected in heparinized capillary tubes, spun on Clay-Adams autocrit centrifuge and calibrated on the Clay-Adams autocrit reader.
The following results were obtained,
Incidence of Anemia :
When hemoglobin value of less than 10.0gm% was considered to represent anemia in infants, the incidence of anemia in study group was 25.3%. (The incidence of anemia among breast feeding infants, bottle feeding infants and mixed feeding infants was 29.2%. 7.7% and 12.5% respectively)
Physical Development :
We selected weight and length gains as objective criteria of physical development. There were significant differences between non-anemic(Hemoglobin is above 10.8gm%) and anemic(Hemoglobin is below 10.0gm%) infants groups. The differences in weight 0.30∼l.73㎏ in male infants and 0.61∼l.75㎏ in female infants in each age groups.
The differences in length were 0.87∼3.43㎝ in male infants and 0.90∼3.58cm in female infants in each age groups. Their physical developments of weight and length of non-anemic infanes in this study were superior to those of Korean Standard growth data(1960∼1965) and recent Japanese Standard growth data (1970)
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