Biros I, Bernasovský I, Stollárová N, Bernasovská K, Jurícková J
Katedra antropológie a zoológie, Prírodovedecká fakulta, UPJS, Kosice.
Cesk Pediatr. 1991 May;46(5):270-4.
The authors investigated the growth of 1208 gipsy and non-gipsy children living with their families and in childrens homes. They revealed that gipsy children from childrens homes were shorter, lighter and had a smaller chest circumference as compared with gipsy children living with their families. This applied only to younger school children. Somatic development caught up in boys at the age of 11-12 years and in girls approximately 1-2 years sooner. The values of the body mass index in boys declined with age. In girls this decline was found only up to the age of 11 to 12 years. Non-gipsy children from childrens homes were smaller than non-gipsy children according to Slovak standards (Lipková et al.; 5); this was particularly marked in boys. The authors found also that the somatic development of gipsy children from childrens homes oscillates between the somatic development of non-gipsy children according to the Slovak standards and the somatic development of gipsy children from families but only during later school age.
作者对1208名与家人同住及住在儿童之家的吉普赛儿童和非吉普赛儿童的生长情况进行了调查。他们发现，与和家人同住的吉普赛儿童相比，住在儿童之家的吉普赛儿童更矮、更轻，胸围也更小。这仅适用于年幼的学童。男孩在11至12岁时身体发育赶上，女孩则大约提前1至2年。男孩的体重指数值随年龄下降。女孩中这种下降仅在11至12岁之前出现。根据斯洛伐克标准，住在儿童之家的非吉普赛儿童比非吉普赛儿童体型更小（利普科娃等人；5）；这在男孩中尤为明显。作者还发现，住在儿童之家的吉普赛儿童的身体发育仅在学龄后期在根据斯洛伐克标准的非吉普赛儿童的身体发育和来自家庭的吉普赛儿童的身体发育之间波动。
