Brown Daniel E, Koenig Tupou V, Demorales Alexis M, Mossman Konrad K, Akina Charlene M, Sako Ehukai K
Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Hilo, Hilo, Hawaii 96720-4091.
Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822.
Am J Hum Biol. 1993;5(1):9-15. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.1310050105.
A semilongitudinal study of the growth of Hawaiian children from four cohorts was carried out with measurements taken at four consecutive annual visits. Each visit entailed an anthropometric battery, including skinfold measurements at six sites. Additionally, interviews with children and their families elicited information on socioeconomic status, other social conditions, and degree of identification with Hawaiian culture. Genealogies were completed to allow estimates of percentage of Polynesian ancestry (PPA) for the Hawaiian children, with estimates compressed into quartiles of PPA. A principal components analysis of the six skinfold measures for each child was carried out, deriving two components. Components relating to centrality of fat distribution were significantly higher among native Hawaiians than in non-Hawaiians, and the components were significantly related to PPA in analyses of covariance for preadolescent children. The relationship between socioeconomic variables and amount of body fatness appears to be stronger than the relationship between these variables and fat distribution. The results suggest a relatively greater role for Polynesian hereditary influence on fat distribution than on quantity of fat among contemporary native Hawaiian children. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
对来自四个队列的夏威夷儿童的生长情况进行了一项半纵向研究，在连续四次年度访视时进行测量。每次访视都进行了一系列人体测量，包括在六个部位测量皮褶厚度。此外，与儿童及其家庭的访谈收集了有关社会经济地位、其他社会状况以及对夏威夷文化认同程度的信息。完成了族谱以估计夏威夷儿童的波利尼西亚血统百分比（PPA），估计值被压缩为PPA的四分位数。对每个儿童的六个皮褶测量值进行主成分分析，得出两个成分。与脂肪分布中心性相关的成分在夏威夷原住民中显著高于非夏威夷人，并且在青春期前儿童的协方差分析中，这些成分与PPA显著相关。社会经济变量与体脂量之间的关系似乎比这些变量与脂肪分布之间的关系更强。结果表明，在当代夏威夷原住民儿童中，波利尼西亚遗传影响对脂肪分布的作用相对大于对脂肪量的作用。© 1993威利 - 利斯公司。
