Comparison of body proportions of one-year-old Mexican-American and Anglo children.
- 1 March 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 71 (3), 280-282
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.71.3.280
Abstract
The body proportions of 95 Anglo and Mexican-American children aged 48-56 wk in the Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Special Supplemental Food Program were determined by use of multiple anthropometric measurements. Ethnic differences were several and collectively define the Mexican-American child as being greater in weight-for-length than the Anglo child with greater chest and thigh circumferences, subscapular skinfolds and estimated body fat.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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