Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children
dc.contributor.author | Bogin, Barry A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, P. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Orden, A. B. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Varela Silva, M. I. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Loucky, James | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-19T14:09:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-19T14:09:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-11 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Bogin, B.; Smith, P.; Orden, A.B.; Varela Silva, M.I.; Loucky, J. (2002)."Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children." American Journal of Human Biology 14(6): 753-761. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/35099> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1042-0533 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1520-6300 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/35099 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=12400036&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Maya families from Guatemala migrated to the United States in record numbers from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Births to Maya immigrant women have created a sizable number of Maya American children. The height and sitting height of 5 to 12 years children (n = 431) were measured in 1999 and 2000. Leg length was estimated and the sitting height ratio was calculated. These data were compared with a sample of Maya children living in Guatemala measured in 1998 (n = 1,347). Maya American children are currently 11.54 cm taller and 6.83 cm longer-legged, on average, than Maya children living in Guatemala. Consequently, the Maya Americans have a significantly lower average sitting height ratio (i.e., relatively longer legs in proportion to length of the head and trunk) than do the Maya in Guatemala. These results add support to the hypothesis that both the height and body proportions of human populations are sensitive indicators of the quality of the environment for growth. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 14:753–761, 2002. © 2002 Wiley-Liss, Inc. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Life and Medical Sciences | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.title | Rapid change in height and body proportions of Maya American children | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Medicine (General) | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Health Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan ; Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, MI 48128 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Social Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Centro de Investigaciones en GenÉtica BÁsica y Aplicada (CIGEBA)-Universidad Nacional de La Plata and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones CientÍficas y TÉcnicas (CONICET), Argentina | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 12400036 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/35099/1/10092_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.10092 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Human Biology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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