Decomposing stature into its major components is proving to be a useful strategy to assess
the antecedents of disease, morbidity and death in adulthood. Human leg length (femur+ …

Human body size and body proportions are interpreted as markers of ethnicity,'race,'
adaptation to temperature, nutritional history and socioeconomic status. Some studies …

Maya families from Guatemala migrated to the United States in record numbers from the late
1970s to the early 1990s. Births to Maya immigrant women have created a sizable number …

Introducción. Debido a la situación de crisis que atravesó nuestro país entre 2001 y 2002, la
Cruz Roja Alemana y su contraparte de Argentina, con el apoyo de la Oficina Europea de …

Children tend to resemble their parents in stature, body proportions, body composition, and
rate of development. It may be assumed that barring the action of obvious environmental …

Growth changes over time among school-aged boys in Kolkata, India, have been
investigated using two surveys: 1982–1983 (n= 816) and 1999–2002 (n= 1187). The two …

Decomposing stature into its major components is proving to be a useful strategy to assess
the antecedents of disease, morbidity and death in adulthood. Human leg length (foot+ …

La investigación bioantropológica en la Argentina fue muy activa tanto en la primera etapa,
comienzos del siglo XVII a 1936, como en el período que va desde ese año hasta la …

El objetivo fue conocer y analizar las prevalencias de desnutrición, composición y
proporción corporales en relación con las condiciones socioambientales de residencia de …

This thesis investigates the growth patterns of infants, children and adolescents in all of
Sweden and the secular change for height and weight for schoolchildren. This thesis is …