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KMID : 0378019790220100055
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New Medical Journal
1979 Volume.22 No. 10 p.55 ~ p.62
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A Study on Physical Growth and Development and Nutritional Status of Primary, Middle and High Schools Students in an Urban Area
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Abstract
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A study on 4,609 (Boys : 2,563, Girls : 2,046) primary, middle and high school students in an urban area was conducted for assessing their physical growth, development and nutritional status from April, 1 to April, 20 1978, and the following results were obtained.
1. Physical Growth and Development
a) Maximum growth was seen during the period from 10 to 15 years of age. b) The maximum annual growth rates were as follows:
Body height; Boys-6.92 cm from 15 to 16 years of age Girls-8.17 cm from 10 to 11
Body weight; Boys-5.7 kg from 13 to 14
Girls-4. 5 kg from 12 to 13
Chest girth; Boys-5.2 cm from 14 to 15
Girls-5.5 cm from 11 to 12
Sitting height; Boys-3.3 cm from 13 to 14
Girls-4.5 cm from 10 to 11
c) The greatest individual differences in growth and development were observed during 11-14 years of age.
d) The standards of growth of rescent urban Korean students show much improved than that of 1967.
2. Various Indices about Physical Growth and Development
a) Relative body weight was increased steadily annually and the crossing point of boys
and girls appeared at age 11 at which girls surpassed boys and at 15, boys surpassed girls.
b) Relative chest-girth showed narrow chest style in boys from 6 to 14 and from 6 to 13 in girls.
c) The average relative sitting height was 54. 0 in both sexes. d) Rdhrer index was 1.2 in boys and 1.2-1.3 in girls.
e) The Kaup index was lower than 2.0 in boys from 6 to 16 and in girls from 6 to 15.
It becomes higher than 2.0 after 17 in boys but in girls after 16.
f) Vervaeck index was 66-87 in boys and 6585 in girls.
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