Longitudinal analysis of adolescent growth of ladino and Mayan school children in Guatemala: Effects of environment and sex
dc.contributor.author | Bogin, Barry A. | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Wall, Maureen | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | MacVean, Robert B. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-04-28T16:17:53Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-04-28T16:17:53Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1992-12 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Bogin, Barry; Wall, Maureen; Macvean, Robert B. (1992)."Longitudinal analysis of adolescent growth of ladino and Mayan school children in Guatemala: Effects of environment and sex." American Journal of Physical Anthropology 89(4): 447-457. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37659> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0002-9483 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1096-8644 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/37659 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=1463089&dopt=citation | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | The rate of growth in height and the timing of adolescent growth events are analyzed for two samples of Guatemalan children. One sample includes Mayan school children, 33 boys and 12 girls between the ages of 5.00 to 17.99 years, living under poor conditions for growth and development. The second sample includes ladino children, 78 boys and 85 girls of the same age range, living under favorable conditions for growth. The Preece-Baines model I function is used to estimate mean values for rates and timing of childhood and adolescent growth events for the two groups. Significant statistical contrasts (t-tests) of these means show Mayan boys reach the age of “take-off” (TO; the onset of the adolescent growth spurt) 1.45 years later, achieve peak height velocity (PHV) 1.68 years later, and continue growing for about 2.0 years longer than do the ladino boys. Despite the Mayan boys' increased duration for growth they grow significantly more slowly than the ladinos . Mayan boys are 6.60 cm shorter than ladinos at the age of TO and are estimated to be 7.71 cm shorter than the ladinos at adulthood. Mayan girls reach the age of TO 0.93 years later than do the ladina girls, but the two groups do not differ in the age at PHV or the age at adulthood. The mean height of Mayan girls is significantly less than that of ladinas at the age of TO (6.5 cm), and this difference increases to an estimated 11.14 cm at adulthood. Possible causes of these ethnic and sex-related differences in amounts and rates of growth are discussed in relation to hypotheses about the genetic and environmental determinants of human development. © 1992 Wiley-Liss, Inc. | en_US |
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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 | Longitudinal analysis of adolescent growth of ladino and Mayan school children in Guatemala: Effects of environment and sex | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.rights.robots | IndexNoFollow | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Anthropology | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan 48128 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan 48128 | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationother | Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Apartado Postal No. 82, Guatemala City, Guatemala | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 1463089 | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/37659/1/1330890406_ftp.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330890406 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | American Journal of Physical Anthropology | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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