Gender-specific growth patterns for stature, sitting height and limbs length in Croatian children and youth (3 to 18 years of age)

Collegium Antropologicum

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 321-334

  Živičnjak, Miroslav ^a,b   Narančić, Nina Smolej ^a   Szirovicza, Lajos ^a   Franke, Doris ^b   Hrenović, Jasna ^c   Bišof, Vesna ^d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Croatia)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d KBC Zagreb   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Anthropometry; Children; Croatia; Gender; Growth patterns; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARM; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROATIA; FEMALE; GENDER; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; LEG LENGTH; LIMB; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREPUBERTY; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SITTING; ANTHROPOMETRY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HISTOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROATIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0141483314     PISSN: 03506134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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