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KMID : 0378019800230040087
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New Medical Journal
1980 Volume.23 No. 4 p.87 ~ p.92
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A Study on Physical Groth and Development and Nutritional Stans of School Boys and Girs in an Urban Area
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Abstract
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A study on 7,655 (Boys :4,022,. Girls:3, 933) primary, middle and high school students in an urban area pusan city was conducted for assessing their physical growth, development and nutritional status from May, 1 to may, 30 1978, and the following results were obtained.
1. Physical Growth and Development.
a) Maximum growth was seen during she period from i0 to 15 years of age
b) The greatest indidual differences in growth and development were observed during 10-14 years of age.
c) 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 10 at which girls surpassed boys and at 12, boys surpassed´ girls.
b) Relative chest-girth sho-vved 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) R6hrer index was 1.1^1.2 in both sexes.
e) The kaup index was lower than 2. 0 in boys from 6 to 15 and in girls from 6 to 14. It becomes higher than 2.0 after 16 in boys but in girls after. 15.
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