Age Variations and Sexual Dimorphism in Linear Body Segments among Children Aged 2-6-Years of Bengalee
Ethnicity from Arambagh, West Bengal, India.
Anthropometry is an important way to evaluate a child’s growth pattern. The measurement of sitting height helps to define body proportion. Every country should have its own normal data and use it as a national reference. These may even have to be ethnic-specific.
In assessing body proportion for the reference charts of sitting height (SH), sub ischial leg length and the sitting height/leg length ratio are useful tools for clinicians and researchers in related areas. It is possible that in many ethnic groups the interrelationships may be different. Thus, these variables can be potentially used to study human population variation.
Anthropometric measurements were used for various purposes– be for studying growth patterns, identifying sexual dimorphism, assessing nutritional status, body composition, relation to various physical as well as metabolic diseases and so on. Here also we have tried to study the age variations and sexual dimorphism in linear
body segments among children aged 2-6-years of Bengalee ethnicity from Arambagh, West Bengal, India. There were no significant sexual dimorphisms between the boys and girls in most of the age groups as well as in most of the anthropometric variables.
Thus, these variables can be potentially used to study human population variation. These subsequent results obtained from these studies may have immense applications in biological anthropology, human population biology and pediatrics. Our results suggest that, in both sexes, there were significant age differences in SILL, SILLP, UTL and UTLP. The BMI had significant associations with these variables in both sexes. Moreover, SILL had significant correlation with UTL and UTLP among the participants.
Anthropol Open J. 2020; 4(1): 15-19. doi: 10.17140/ANTPOJ-4-121
