Coy J F, Gibson H B, Longmore E A, Ratkowsky D A
Med J Aust. 1976 Oct 9;2(15):566-7.
A longitudinal growth study of Tasmanian children, involving 1,114 infants born between September 1, 1967, and August 31, 1968, has continued into the seventh year during 1974-1975, when measurements of height and weight were recorded on the 898 remaining children that could be traced. A portion of the results is presented here. The main findings is that a high percentage of children who are overweight at the age of three years is likely to be overweight at seven years. Birth weight is not an important factor in determining the weight of a seven-year-old. Children over the 90th percentile at age three years are, on the average, more than 5 kg heavier at seven years than children between the 10th and 90th percentiles at three years. The seven-year-old weights themselves do not appear to have altered in the past two decades, being virtually identical to those in the 1957 Standard Tables for Australian Children.
一项针对塔斯马尼亚儿童的纵向生长研究，涉及1967年9月1日至1968年8月31日期间出生的1114名婴儿，在1974 - 1975年持续到了第七年，当时对可追踪到的898名剩余儿童记录了身高和体重测量数据。这里展示了部分结果。主要发现是，三岁时超重的儿童中，很大比例在七岁时可能仍超重。出生体重并非决定七岁儿童体重的重要因素。三岁时处于第90百分位以上的儿童，七岁时平均比三岁时处于第10至90百分位的儿童重超过5千克。七岁儿童的体重在过去二十年似乎没有变化，实际上与1957年澳大利亚儿童标准表格中的体重相同。
