Moscow University
Anthropology
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Anthropology
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1) Department of Anatomy, Histology and Anthropology, Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania; 2) Vilnius University Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania
Suchomlinov Andrej, e-mail: andrej.suchomlinov@mf.vu.lt.
Based on the 1985–1992 cross-sectional auxological Lithuanian growth study, the new growth monitoring system and percentile growth charts were implemented at clinical practice in Lithuania since 1995 (Tutkuviene, 1995). The aim of the present study was to evaluate physical status of children born in 1996 in Vilnius city from birth up to the end of puberty and to investigate their growth tendencies. Material and methods: data were derived in 2014 from personal health records of children (373 boys and 342 girls, total number 715) born in 1996 in Vilnius city. Main growth indices (height and weight recorded annually from birth up to the age of 17 years, and calculated body mass index) of children were investigated. Main growth indices were compared with the results of the longitudinal study of children born in 1990 from Vilnius city (Suchomlinov, 2011) and the results of the cross-sectional growth studies of Lithuanian children (Tutkuviene, 1995, 2000–2005). Results: at the age of 17 years children born in 1996 were 1.5–2 cm higher than in 1985–1992 (p<0.05) – boys’ and girls’ height was 180.1±7.5 cm and 168.1±6.1 cm, respectively. Children of both sexes from the current study, compared to their peers born in 1990, were higher at birth (boys 53.3±2.3 cm and 52.8±2.3 cm, girls 52.8±2.4 cm and 52.3±2.4 cm respectively, p<0.05). There were no differences in final height, weight or BMI between 1990 in 1996 birth cohorts; however, children born in 1996 had significantly higher BMI compared with the results of the cross-sectional growth study of Lithuanian children conducted in 2000-2005 (boys 21.8±3.4 kg/m² and 21.1±2.6 kg/m², girls 21.5±3.6 kg/m² and 20.2±2.3 kg/m² respectively, p<0.05). Conclusion: stabilization in height and gaining in BMI was observed in children born 1996 in Vilnius city.
longitudinal auxological study, personal health records, height, weight, body mass index
Цит.: Suchomlinov Andrej, Čerškus Gediminas, Kolosov Andrej, Rakita Ignas, Tutkuvienė Janina PHYSICAL STATUS OF CHILDREN BORN IN 1996 (LONGITUDINAL AUXOLOGICAL STUDY OF CHILDREN FROM VILNIUS CITY, 1996–2013) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 61-62
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