Evaluación antropométrica del crecimiento somático en adolescentes del medio urbano

Rebato, Esther
; González Apraiz, Arantxa

Publication year:

1998

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-439X

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Summary

This article analyses the ontogenic variability and the sexual dimorfism of a set of anthropometric variables (stature, weight, sitting height, ileospinal height and biacromial and bicrestal widths) taken in adolescents of both sexes residing in the city of Bilbao. The sample is formed by 1.260 students (605 boys and 655 girls), with no family relations among each other and aged between 14 and 19, that they have been the object of a transverse study. The analysis accomplished indicate: i) meaningful changes in the age of all the dimensions studied, ii) a greater variability in the length and in the weight that in transverse measurements, and iii) a notable sexual diformism, with a greater variability in the masculine sex, which present a higher average in the measurements taken for all ages