Guihard-Costa A M, Grangé G, Larroche J C, Papiernik E
UMR 152 du CNRS, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie, Musée de l'Homme, France.
Biol Neonate. 1997;72(3):156-64. doi: 10.1159/000244479.
Sexual differences in anthropometric measurements have been studied in a sample of 17,787 preterm and full-term infants, born between 1980 and 1990 in the maternity of Clamart Hospital (Hauts-de-Seine, France). Body weight, body length, head and chest circumferences were found significantly larger in male newborns. Conversely, the subscapular and tricipital skinfold thicknesses had higher values in females. Such greater fatness in females could be related to the better outcome in neonates of this sex. The weight-for-height indices, however, did not show this female advantage: the body mass index (BMI) and the body weight/body length index were greater in male neonates, the ponderal index (PI) showed no sexual difference.
对1980年至1990年间在法国上塞纳省克拉马尔医院妇产科出生的17787名早产和足月婴儿样本进行了人体测量方面的性别差异研究。发现男婴的体重、身长、头围和胸围明显更大。相反，女性的肩胛下和三头肌皮褶厚度值更高。女性这种更高的肥胖程度可能与该性别新生儿更好的结局有关。然而，身高体重指数并未显示出这种女性优势：男婴的体重指数（BMI）和体重/身长指数更高， ponderal指数（PI）没有性别差异。
