[Growth in body height by children between 4 and 12 years of age--results of the Jena longitudinal study].
In the autumn of 1985 an anthropological longitudinal investigation on 104 female and 98 male children at the age of 4 and 4.5 years was started in Jena. The present paper gives a short survey on this longitudinal study. Standards for body height (mean and standard deviation) of the 4-12 years old boys and girls, measured in this study, are presented and percentile curves are constructed. For the individual development of the body height increments are calculated. Comparison of the height standards with those of national and of European studies reveal only minor differences. In the higher age classes the Jena probands show the greatest values of body height. The presented percentile curves should be used by paediatricians, especially.
Institut für Humangenetik und Anthropologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena.
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D000886:Anthropometry; D001827:Body Height; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D012016:Reference Values
Die Entwicklung der Körperhöhe bei Kindern zwischen 4 und 12 Jahren--Ergebnisse der Jenaer Längsschnittuntersuchung.