A comparison of growth: Spanish-surnamed with non-Spanish-surnamed children
| Autor: | Burris Duncan, A N Smith, F W Briese |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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Gerontology
Male Colorado Growth retardation Adolescent Cephalometry education Body Weight Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Growth Hispanic or Latino Body Height Head circumference Geography Socioeconomic Factors Child Preschool Ethnicity Humans Female Child Socioeconomic status Health statistics Demography Research Article |
| Zdroj: | American journal of public health. 69(9) |
| ISSN: | 0090-0036 |
| Popis: | Weight, height, and head circumference measurements of 4,167 Spanish-surnamed school-aged children were compared with similar data from 2,322 non-Spanish surnamed children who resided in the same Denver, Colorado neighborhoods. These data were also compared with data from six other studies. Both male and female Spanish-surnamed children were found to weigh less, be shorter, and have smaller head circumferences than non-Spanish-surnamed children living in the same Denver neighborhoods. The sizes of the children in these two populations residing in lower and lower-middle class neighborhoods were closer to each other than to the sizes of children from middle and upper-middle socioeconomic classes as measured in previous studies or to the sizes of children in the recently published cross-sectional National Center for Health Statistics study. Such comparisons suggest that growth retardation is more a reflection of socioeconomic factors than of ethnic-genetic factors. |
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