Bong Yii Bonn, Shariff Asma Ahmad, Mohamed Abdul Majid, Merican Amir Feisal
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Asia Pac J Public Health. 2015 Mar;27(2):NP1217-27. doi: 10.1177/1010539512446959. Epub 2012 May 31.
In this article, the authors propose reference curves for height and weight for school children in the Kuching area, Sarawak. The school children were from primary to secondary schools (aged 6.5 to 17 years old) and comprised both genders. Anthropometric measurements and demographic information for 3081 school-aged children were collected (1440 boys and 1641 girls). Fitted line plots and percentiles for height and weight (3rd, 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th, 90th, and 97th percentiles) were obtained. The height of school boys and school girls were almost similar at the start of their school-going age. For school girls, height and weight values stabilized when they reached 16 or 17 years old but kept increasing for school boys. School boys were taller than school girls as they entered adolescence. Height differences between school boys and school girls became significantly wider as they grew older. Chinese school children were taller and heavier than those of other ethnic groups.
在本文中，作者提出了砂拉越古晋地区学童身高和体重的参考曲线。这些学童来自小学和中学（年龄在6.5至17岁之间），涵盖了男女生。收集了3081名学龄儿童的人体测量数据和人口统计信息（1440名男孩和1641名女孩）。获得了身高和体重的拟合线图以及百分位数（第3、10、25、50、75、90和97百分位数）。男学童和女学童在入学年龄开始时身高几乎相似。对于女学童，身高和体重值在她们达到16或17岁时趋于稳定，但男学童的身高和体重持续增加。男学童在进入青春期时比女学童高。随着年龄增长，男学童和女学童之间的身高差异变得更加显著。华裔学童比其他族群的学童更高更重。
