Growth Reacceleration of School Children in the City of Sendai, Japan
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HARUO NAKATSUKA,1,2 HIROSHI SATOH2 and MASAYUKI IKEDA3
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1Miyagi University, School of Nursing, Taiwa-cho 981-3298, 2Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai 980-8575, and 3Kyoto Industrial Health Association, Kyoto 604-8472
Height and weight of 6th year-grade children in primary schools and the 3rd year-grade children in junior high schools have been recorded in Sendai in every October since pre-World War II days, and the secular trends of the annual gains in the measures were compared among the latest three decades of 1965-74, 1975-84 and 1985-94. Acceleration and then reduction in acceleration in growth were observed in the first and the second decade, respectively, and such were followed by reacceleration in the latest 10 year-period. The three-phased changes were most evident in height and weight of primary school children of both sexes, whereas less clear or unclear among children in junior high schools.
Key words---
growth; height; reacceleration; school children; weight
© 1998 Tohoku University Medical Press
Tohoku J. Exp. Med., 1998, 184, 301-309
Address for reprints:
Prof. Haruo Nakatsuka, Miyagi University, School of Nursing, Taiwa-cho 981-3298, Japan.
e-mail: nakatuka@mail.sp.myu.ac.jp
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