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August 1973, Vol 126, No. 2 >
Article | August 1973

Anthropometric Differences Between Black and White Preschool Children FREE

George M. Owen, MD; A. Harold Lubin, MD
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Received for publication Jan 29, 1973; accepted April 16.

Reprint requests to UNM, Surge Building, 2701 Frontier NE, Albuquerque, NM 87106 (Dr. Owen).


Am J Dis Child. 1973;126(2):168-169. doi:10.1001/archpedi.1973.02110190148007.
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Sometime during the first two years of life, black children become bigger than white children (both in height and weight). Although the differences on an individual basis are not of sufficient magnitude to warrant separate charts based on race or skin color for clinical use, the person who is going to use measures of physical growth to evaluate his population for research purposes must continue to stratify his study population using variables of age, sex, and race.

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Barr GD, Allen CM, Shinefield HR:  Height and weight of 7500 children of three skin colors . Am J Dis Child 124:866-872, 1972;.
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Hamill PV, Johnston FE, Grams W: Height and Weight of Children: United States Vital Health Statistics , series 11. US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1970;, pp 1-48.
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Garn SM, et al:  Advanced skeletal development in low-income Negro children . J Pediatr 80:965-969, 1972;.
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Wingerd J, Schoen EJ, Solomon IL:  Growth standards in the first two years of life based on measurements of white and black children in a prepaid health care program . Pediatrics 47:818-825, 1971;.
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Kasius RV, et al:  Maternal and newborn nutrition studies at Philadelphia Lying-In Hospital: Newborn Studies V: Size and growth of babies during the first year of life . Milbank Mem Fund Q 35:324-372, 1957;.
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Verghese KP, et al:  Studies in growth and development: XII. Physical growth of North American Negro children . Pediatrics 44:243-247, 1969;.
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 Committee on Nutrition: National Nutritional Survey of Preschool Children . Pediatrics 39:485-487, 1967;.
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Warner WL, Meeker M, Eells K: Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Class . Chicago, Science Research Associates Inc, 1949;, chap 8, 9, and 11.

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Kish L, Hess I: The Survey Center's National Sample of Dwellings , ISR No. 2315. Ann Arbor, Mich, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 1965;.
2 +
Barr GD, Allen CM, Shinefield HR:  Height and weight of 7500 children of three skin colors . Am J Dis Child 124:866-872, 1972;.
3 +
Hamill PV, Johnston FE, Grams W: Height and Weight of Children: United States Vital Health Statistics , series 11. US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1970;, pp 1-48.
4 +
Ten-State Nutrition Survey, 1968-1970 , HSM Publication No. 72-8131. Atlanta, US Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare, Center for Disease Control, 1972;.
5 +
Garn SM, et al:  Advanced skeletal development in low-income Negro children . J Pediatr 80:965-969, 1972;.
6 +
Wingerd J, Schoen EJ, Solomon IL:  Growth standards in the first two years of life based on measurements of white and black children in a prepaid health care program . Pediatrics 47:818-825, 1971;.
7 +
Kasius RV, et al:  Maternal and newborn nutrition studies at Philadelphia Lying-In Hospital: Newborn Studies V: Size and growth of babies during the first year of life . Milbank Mem Fund Q 35:324-372, 1957;.
8 +
Verghese KP, et al:  Studies in growth and development: XII. Physical growth of North American Negro children . Pediatrics 44:243-247, 1969;.
9 +
 Committee on Nutrition: National Nutritional Survey of Preschool Children . Pediatrics 39:485-487, 1967;.
10 +
Warner WL, Meeker M, Eells K: Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Class . Chicago, Science Research Associates Inc, 1949;, chap 8, 9, and 11.

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