Beijing da xue xue bao. Journal of Peking University. Yi xue ban, 2007-04, Vol.39 (2), p.126
2007
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- Titel
- Secular growth trends in the Chinese urban youth and its implications on public health
- Ist Teil von
- Beijing da xue xue bao. Journal of Peking University. Yi xue ban, 2007-04, Vol.39 (2), p.126
- Ort / Verlag
- China
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2007
- Quelle
- MEDLINE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- To analyze the secular growth trends of the Chinese urban youth from 1979 to 2005, in order to make national intervention strategies and measures to improve their physical fitness and health. Subjects were sampled from 16 provincial-capital cities in China. They were all Han primary and secondary school students aged 7 to 18 years. The increments of stature, weight and BMI, and the increments per decade of these indicators at different stages were analyzed. In recent 26 years, the overall increments were 6.5 and 4.7 cm for stature, and 8.9 and 5.2 kg for weight, for boys and girls, respectively. Swiftest rates were found in the period of 1985-1995, with the increments which were as high as 3.8 and 3.0 cm/decade for height, and 4.7 and 3.1 kg/decade for weight, for boys and girls respectively. These trends are still strong at present, without any tendency of going to the plateau. Advanced puberty plays the most contributing role in these trends, with the peak height rates being 2.4 cm/decade for girls at the a
- Sprache
- Chinesisch
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- ISSN: 1671-167XTitel-ID: cdi_pubmed_primary_17440584