Ahmed F, Bhuyan M A, Shaheen N, Barua S, Margetts B M, Jackson A A
Institute of Nutrition and Food Science, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Eur J Clin Nutr. 1991 Jun;45(6):327-30.
The relationship between socio-demographic variables and growth of 242 school children from five schools in Dhaka city, Bangladesh, was investigated. The socio-demographic data were collected by questionnaire and the anthropometric data were collected by visits to each school on a prefixed date. Children from the high-family-income group showed significantly higher body weight, height, MUAC, SFT, wt/age, and ht/age compared with children from the low-family-income group. When the effect of age, sex, father's occupation and family size were adjusted for by means of multiple analysis of variance, the family income still showed a significant contribution to the variation in the anthropometric indices of these children. These findings suggest that family income makes a significant contribution as a determinant of growth of urban school children in Bangladesh.
对来自孟加拉国达卡市五所学校的242名学童的社会人口统计学变量与生长发育之间的关系进行了调查。通过问卷调查收集社会人口统计学数据，并在预先确定的日期到各学校走访收集人体测量数据。与低家庭收入组的儿童相比，高家庭收入组的儿童体重、身高、上臂中部周长、肩胛下皮褶厚度、体重/年龄和身高/年龄明显更高。通过多因素方差分析对年龄、性别、父亲职业和家庭规模的影响进行校正后，家庭收入对这些儿童人体测量指标的差异仍有显著贡献。这些结果表明，家庭收入作为孟加拉国城市学童生长发育的一个决定因素具有显著贡献。
