title: [Growth, body weight and the yearly increase in height in children and adolescents in Novi Sad].
abstract: The paper presents a graphical account of the growth and nutritional status out of anthropometric values which were attained by means of a longitudinal study on Novi Sad children. The paper states the advantages which these graphical accounts provide through a quick, simple and exact evaluation of the growth and the nutritional status of children and young people from the second to the 18th year of age. The paper also gives nomograms of the annual height increase separately according to sexes. The average height of the eighteen-year old population (boys 179.8 and girls 166.5 cm) in our surroundings is among the highest in Europe. By comparing the named average height values with those of fifteen years ago we observe a positive difference in favor of today's young generation, this being 2.3 cm in boys and 2.0 cm in girls. The value of the T coefficient is 3.66 in boys and 3.7 in girls which means that the differences are very significant at the level of 1%.
authors.affiliation: Institut za zdravstvenu zastitu majke i deteta, Medicinski fakultet Novi Sad.
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authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vuković
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006128:Growth; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values
vernacular_title: Rast, masa i godisnji prirast u visinu kod dece i omladine Novog Sada.