Rasmussen Søren, Petersen Tove Anne-Grete, Madsen Mette
Statens Institut for Folkesundhed, Svanemøllevej 25, DK-2100 København ø.
Ugeskr Laeger. 2002 Oct 21;164(43):5011-5.
Danish schoolchildren are said to have grown taller during the last 25 years. Studies on this topic have not been nationwide, however. The aim of this study was to compare the heights of a nationwide sample of Danish schoolchildren in 1986/1987-1996/1997 to a sample in 1971/1972.
The school health officers in 23 municipalities representing a "mini-Denmark" collected from the school health records 3-4 routinely measured heights in children attending school in 1986/1987-1996/1997. The data covered at total of 11,351 height measurements of 3378 children. From these data, standards of height from the age of 6-16 years were calculated.
The schoolchildren's average heights had increased about 1 cm at the start of school, 2-3 cm in girls and 5-6 cm in boys aged 10-15 years and 0.6 cm in girls and 1.6 cm in boys aged 16 years, as compared to growth charts for 1971/1972.
The children in our study were taller than schoolchildren in 1971/1972, and they seemed to have an earlier pubertal height spurt. A growth study of Danish children is needed.
据说丹麦学童在过去25年里长高了。然而,关于这个主题的研究并非全国性的。本研究的目的是将1986/1987 - 1996/1997年丹麦全国学童样本的身高与1971/1972年的样本进行比较。
来自代表“迷你丹麦”的23个市镇的学校卫生官员从学校健康记录中收集了1986/1987 - 1996/1997年在校儿童3 - 4次常规测量的身高数据。这些数据涵盖了3378名儿童的总共11351次身高测量。根据这些数据,计算出了6至16岁儿童的身高标准。
与1971/1972年的生长图表相比,学童入学时的平均身高增加了约1厘米,10至15岁女孩增加了2 - 3厘米,男孩增加了5 - 6厘米,16岁女孩增加了0.6厘米,男孩增加了1.6厘米。
我们研究中的儿童比1971/1972年的学童更高,而且他们似乎青春期身高突增出现得更早。需要对丹麦儿童进行一项生长研究。