Zammit M P, Kalra V, Winters E B
Department of Orthodontics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
Arctic Med Res. 1993 Oct;52(4):153-60.
The purpose of this study was to describe standing height and body weight recorded in 1991 from 32% (n = 100) of the Labrador Inuit youth aged between 5-18 years living in Nain. The results demonstrated that females are taller than males until the age of 13 years. Growth in height seemed to level off at 15 years in females and 16 years in males. The greatest increase in height was between the ages of 11-13 years for females and 13-15 years for males. The largest increase in weight was between 12-16 years for both sexes. The data was compared with National Center for Health Statistics Growth Curves of United States youth. For this sample, height of the Labrador Inuit lies between the 10th and 50th percentiles, and weight lies between the 50th and 75th percentiles, while weight for height lies between the 75th and 95th percentiles. These results were similar to other studies of Inuit youth from Alaska, Canada and Greenland. In fact, the growth pattern of high weight for height demonstrated in Labrador seems to be typical of the Inuit population. Comparison of this data with that of stature recorded for Labrador Inuit between 1880-1928, although derived from small samples, suggests that a secular trend of increase in height with time for both sexes has occurred.
本研究的目的是描述1991年对居住在奈恩的年龄在5至18岁之间的32%（n = 100）的拉布拉多因纽特青年所记录的身高和体重情况。结果表明，在13岁之前女性比男性高。女性身高增长似乎在15岁时趋于平稳，男性则在16岁时趋于平稳。女性身高增长最大的年龄段在11至13岁之间，男性在13至15岁之间。两性体重增加最大的年龄段在12至16岁之间。该数据与美国国家卫生统计中心的美国青年生长曲线进行了比较。对于这个样本，拉布拉多因纽特人的身高处于第10至第50百分位数之间，体重处于第50至第75百分位数之间，而身高对应的体重处于第75至第95百分位数之间。这些结果与对来自阿拉斯加、加拿大和格陵兰的因纽特青年的其他研究结果相似。事实上，拉布拉多所显示的高身高对应体重的生长模式似乎是因纽特人群的典型特征。将该数据与1880年至1928年期间记录的拉布拉多因纽特人的身高数据进行比较，尽管样本较小，但表明两性都出现了随时间身高增加的长期趋势。
