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The Development of Children in a Swedish Urban Community. A Prospective Longitudinal Study
Author(s) -
KARLBERG PETTER,
ENGSTRÖM INGA,
LICHTENSTEIN HENRIK,
SVENNBERG INGA
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1968.tb06041.x
Subject(s) - medicine , percentile , femur , circumference , condyle , subcutaneous fat , humerus , subcutaneous tissue , prospective cohort study , pediatrics , orthodontics , surgery , geometry , statistics , mathematics , adipose tissue
Summary The physical growth was followed longitudinally from birth to 3 years of age in a group of 212 randomly sampled children from the Stockholm urban area, 122 boys and 90 girls. The children were measured on eight occasions at fixed intervals. Recumbent length, crown‐rump length, weight, femur bicondylar and humerus bi‐condylar width, biacromial and pelvic width, circumference of head and chest, subcutaneous tissue at four different sites and the anterior fontanel were measured. The mean values for these measurements with S.D. as well as the percentiles are given. The increments were calculated and are also given as means with S.D. and percentiles. The pattern of growth is discussed. Differences between boys and girls were found, particularly with respect to the skeletal and the subcutaneous tissue, the former being more developed in boys and the latter in girls.