PMID: 16640221Apr 28, 2006Paper

Correlation between children's weight and height at medical examination on enrolling in 1st class of primary school and birth growth parameters with parental heights

Lijec̆nic̆ki vjesnik
Marijana JakićJasminka Milas

Abstract

Physical growth is permanently influenced by genetic and environmental factors. Their impacts are overlapping, and therefore it is difficult to separate the contribution particularly ascribable to one or another kind of the factors. The study investigated the relation between body weight and height in 397 children (195 girls and 202 boys) enrolling primary school and their birth growth features on the one side, and their parents' heights on the other. The correlations between children's weight and height on enrolling primary school and their birth growth features were also studied. The aim was to examine the proportion of genetic determinacy of children's growth. Mean birth weight and length were 3440 +/- 413 g and 50.50 +/- 2.00 cm, respectively, and mean head circumference was 34.50 +/- 1.20 cm. On entering the primary school, the children were 6.70 +/- 0.30 years of age in average, and had mean body weight and height of 24.60 +/- 5.00 kg and 122.70 +/- 6.15 cm, respectively. Majority of children had both parents with middle or low education level, 285 (71.79%) of them. Majority of children also had both parents employed. 266 (67.00%) of them. Children's height on enrolling the school was in significant positive correlation w...Continue Reading

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