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Level of fatness and size attainment
Author(s) -
Garn Stanley M.,
Clark Diane C.,
Guire Kenneth E.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330400316
Subject(s) - percentile , demography , significant difference , obesity , psychology , medicine , mathematics , statistics , sociology
In a generally low‐income group of 4,888 White boys and girls, 740 obese children (above the 85th percentile for the triceps fatfold) stand systematically taller, by 0.64 Z scores, than 840 lean boys and girls (below the 15th percentile for fatness) a difference increasing to 1 S.D. at ages 11–12, suggesting a direct effect of the level of fatness on standing height and a cumulative fatness‐related difference in the annual rate of growth.