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La proporción entre la estatura y el peso corporal
La proporción entre la estatura y el peso corporal;
La proporción entre la estatura y el peso corporal
Autor
Faulhaber, Joahanna
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Resumen
Several studies of height and weight during growrh have been published for Mexico City since 1913, which show a general increase in both measurements in recent years. In order to determine if the proportion of height and weight is nowadays the same as before, the z values proposed by Ross and Wilson (1974) for the unisex Phantom were calculated. The results showed that after the age of 7 to 8 years, the recent increase in satarure is accopanied by a bigger increase in the proportional weight, specially in girls. Comparing our data with those existing for belgian and Hungarian children up to l3 years of age, it was shown that in the European studies the proportionalweight is lower than that found in Mexico Here the results of the more recent studies are only slightly higher in the proportionalweight based on the data of Faulhaber, while that presented byRamos Galván is very much bigger fiom 8 to l3 years than the ones from Europe. These facts, due possibly to differences in diet. have to be taken into account when the nutritional status is evaluaied in Mexican children on the basis of the later proportional weight. En esta investigación se pretende analizar y observar la relación que existe entre el peso y la estatura corporal, este fenómeno se aprecia como un factor biológico general del crecimiento en mayor latitud, este fenómeno coincide con una morfología longilinea del cuerpo en infantes, hecho que se refleja en un menor peso, proporcional; los resultados nos indican que para evaluar el estado de nutrición y salud se debe tomar en cuenta otros factores estructurales y del medio ambiente en el cual se desarrollen los individuos que se pretendan evaluar.