Open AccessPhysical development of children in St. Petersburg: to the discussion about methods of evaluation
Author(s) -
V.L. Gritsinskaya,
Грицинская Вера Людвиговна,
В. П. Новикова,
Новикова Валерия Павловна
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
pediatr
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2587-6252
pISSN - 2079-7850
DOI - 10.17816/ped10233-36
Subject(s) - anthropometry , growth spurt , st petersburg , body height , reference values , pediatrics , demography , medicine , psychology , body weight , sociology , metropolitan area , pathology
Anthropometric evaluation is an essential feature of pediatric evaluation. Different countries use different approaches in pediatric growth assessment. The article presents a comparative analysis of the body length (BL) indicators of modern school-age children in St. Petersburg with regional standards (1991) and international standards (WHO Growth Reference 2007). Anthropometric evaluation was conducted among 6207 children aged 7 to 17 years; the median, standard deviation and centile distribution of the BL values of school-age children were determined. We found that the values of BL of modern school-age children are higher than that their peers had thirty years ago; in boys, the maximum difference is found during the pubertal growth spurt; Non-parametric and parametric indicators of BL in senior pupils of St. Petersburg are higher than in the standards of the World Health Organization; in junior schoolchildren no difference was found. The data we obtained create the prerequisites for the development of modern regional standards for growth assessment of children and school-age children in St. Petersburg and their practical use for pediatric examinations.