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Torretta O, Guerci A, Carossino P, et al. Cross-sectional anthropometric study of Burmese boys and girls 9-14 years of age with secular comparisons from 1948. Am J Hum Biol. 1994;6(6):693-697doi: 10.1002/ajhb.1310060603.
Torretta, O., Guerci, A., Carossino, P., & Zin, T. (1994). Cross-sectional anthropometric study of Burmese boys and girls 9-14 years of age with secular comparisons from 1948. American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council, 6(6), 693-697. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.1310060603
Torretta, Oscar, et al. "Cross-sectional anthropometric study of Burmese boys and girls 9-14 years of age with secular comparisons from 1948." American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council vol. 6,6 (1994): 693-697. doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.1310060603
Torretta O, Guerci A, Carossino P, Zin T. Cross-sectional anthropometric study of Burmese boys and girls 9-14 years of age with secular comparisons from 1948. Am J Hum Biol. 1994;6(6):693-697. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.1310060603. PMID: 28548323.
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Am J Hum Biol. 1994;6(6):693-697. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.1310060603.

Cross-sectional anthropometric study of Burmese boys and girls 9-14 years of age with secular comparisons from 1948.

American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council

Oscar Torretta, Antonio Guerci, Paolo Carossino, Thant Zin

Affiliations

  1. Istituto di Antropologia Fisica, Università di Genova, via Balbi 4, 16100 Genova, Italy.
  2. Istitute of Traditional Medicine, Yangon, Myanmar.

PMID: 28548323 DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.1310060603

Abstract

Somatic data were collected during January 1992 on 135 boys and 121 girls attending school in Yangon (Rangoon), Burma. The measures of body size (stature, sitting height, lower limb height, shoulder width, hip width, and chest girth), and body form (lower limb height as a percentage of sitting height) were analyzed for central tendency and variability. Comparisons were made with earlier samples of Burmese children measured in 1948, 1957, and 1960 as well as with samples from China, India, and Japan. Lower mean statures suggest that children from low socioeconomic circumstances in Burma are experiencing a negative secular trend that coincides with a declining economy. Before further inferences can be made, additional studies are needed due to the small sample size and restricted socioeconomic strata. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Copyright © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc., A Wiley Company.

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