title: Racial differences in anthropometric traits in school children of Bahia, Brazil.
abstract: Two thousand four hundred and forty-four Brazilian school children were classified as Light, Medium and Dark according to a subjective jedgment of the proportion of Negro admixture, and studied for weight, height, span and upper-segment/lower-segment (US/LS) ratio. The mean US/LS ratio decreases significantly as the proportion of Negro admixture increases giving an intermediate value for those children belonging to the Medium group for race.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000886:Anthropometry; D044383:Black People; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D044469:Racial Groups