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Some regularities of growth processes of infants

Fedotova T.K. (1), Deryabin V.E. (2), Gorbacheva A.K. (1)

1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia; 2) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of biology, Department of anthropology, Leninskie Gory, 1, p.12, Moscow, 119991, Russia

Fedotova Tatiana K, Ph.D., D.Sc., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-7750-7924, e-mail: tatiana.fedotova@mail.ru; Deryabin V.E.; Gorbacheva Anna K., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5201-7128, e-mail: angoria@yandex.ru

Abstract

Specific peculiarities of infant’ growth are discussed using the longitudinal sample of Moscow infants aged 0–12 months examined in 2009. Growth dynamics of main physical development parameters – body length and mass, head and chest circumferences – corresponds growth with decreasing increments through first 12 months. Personal growth patterns free of circumstances of prenatal development appear after 4–5 months. Stability of personal somatic status describes the significant part of individual variability of body dimensions, but is less than the same property through 3–17 years interval.

Keywords

longitudinal sample, infants aged 0–12 months, personal growth patterns

Цит.: Fedotova T.K., Deryabin V.E., Gorbacheva A.K. Some regularities of growth processes of infants // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2010; 1/2010; с. 22-35