[Percentiles of the neck-girth in children and adolescents (author's transl)].

Correlative calculations as to the circumference of the neck in age-conformingly developed children have revealed that neck circumference exhibits the best correlations to body weight, followed by body surface, body height, age and cervical skin thickness. The graph of the 50. percentile demonstrates sex-different course with single discontinuities of level, which are characteristic in the beginnings of school-resp. of puberal ages. The positions of the 1-s-deviations beside the 50. percentiles are almost symmetrical. An essential result of this investigations is the correction of the wide spread opinion of an age dependency of neck circumference. Instead of this, nearly linear correlation exists between body weight and neck circumference.