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Relationship of birth weight and length with growth in height and body diameters from 5 years of age to maturity
Author(s) -
Loesch Danuta Z.,
Huggins Richard M.,
Stokes Kerry M.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
american journal of human biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.559
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1520-6300
pISSN - 1042-0533
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6300(199911/12)11:6<772::aid-ajhb7>3.0.co;2-h
Subject(s) - hum , head circumference , birth weight , circumference , body weight , body height , demography , linear relationship , maturity (psychological) , anthropometry , body proportions , biology , zoology , medicine , mathematics , statistics , pregnancy , endocrinology , psychology , art , developmental psychology , genetics , geometry , sociology , performance art , art history
Birth weight and birth length were compared with several growth measures, including body height and weight, linear measures of limbs, body diameters, and head circumference, in 726 Melbourne schoolchildren of both sexes age 5–18 years. The analysis of relationships between three categories of birth length, weight, and growth measures were based on z‐scores and performed by using analysis of variance and partial correlation. The data showed that birth length was correlated with body height and birth weight was correlated with head circumference; the relationships were weak and were less clear around the age corresponding to the peak height velocity in either sex. Further studies are needed to determine the common underlying mechanisms responsible for these associations. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 11:772–778, 1999. © 1999 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.