Qamra Suneel, Shrivastava Praval, Roy Jyotirmoy
Indian Council of Medical Research, Regional Medical Research Center for Tribals, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Coll Antropol. 2012 Sep;36(3):929-36.
The present study has been carried out on 795 Baiga children (453 males and 342 females) of Baiga-chak area of Dindori district in Madhya Pradesh (MP) varying between 1-18 years of age with an aim to understand their growth profile using cross sectional design. Fourteen body measurements (weight, height, sitting height, lengths, breadths, circumferences and skin folds) were studied. Four indices namely Sitting height/Leg length, Bicristal breadth/Biacro-mial breadth, Head circumference/Chest circumference & Cephalic index were computed to study the proportionate body changes. All body measurements except for skin folds increased progressively in each age group showing insignificant difference between boys and girls in most of age groups with no evident peak velocity during pubertal age in both sexes. However skin folds showed inconsistent pattern with each successive age. The present children were slightly heavier and taller than tribal children of other areas but lighter and shorter than Bharia children. However, these children were comparable with all India rural children but found below 10th percentile when compared with National Centre for Health Statistics (NCHS) standards. The absence of peak velocity and poor growth in studied children may be due to low intensity of growth rate. Proportionate changes observed in the present study were similar to Indian Punjabi girls.
本研究对中央邦丁多里区拜加查克地区795名年龄在1至18岁之间的拜加儿童（453名男性和342名女性）进行，旨在采用横断面设计了解他们的生长情况。研究了14项身体测量指标（体重、身高、坐高、长度、宽度、周长和皮褶厚度）。计算了坐高/腿长、两髂嵴间宽/两肩峰间宽、头围/胸围和头指数这四项指数，以研究身体比例变化。除皮褶厚度外，各年龄组的所有身体测量指标均逐渐增加，大多数年龄组中男孩和女孩之间差异不显著，两性在青春期均未出现明显的生长高峰速度。然而，皮褶厚度在每个连续年龄组中表现出不一致的模式。这些儿童比其他地区的部落儿童略重、略高，但比巴里亚儿童轻、矮。不过，这些儿童与全印度农村儿童相当，但与美国国家卫生统计中心（NCHS）标准相比，处于第10百分位数以下。所研究儿童生长高峰速度缺失和生长不良可能是由于生长率强度较低。本研究中观察到的比例变化与印度旁遮普邦女孩相似。
