[Comparison of the growth of subjects from 6 to 12 years of age in the province of Naples and the province of L'Aquila].

The authors studied weight, height and thoracic circumference of 419 children 6 to 12 years old who were born in Naples county. They transcribed data on special anthropometrical forms and computed arithmetical mean and standard deviation for every series of biometrical values. Then they plotted the graphs of growth-state obtaining so the growth curves. Comparing these graphs with those obtained by the same methods in children from L'Aquila of the same age, the following conclusions can be drawn: 1) Neapolitan children have a slight more increased growth with respect to children born in L'Aquila; 2) the growth of both groups is similar since the shape of their growth curves is overlapping.