Table 1 Descriptive statistics of age and anthropometric traits in the initial and follow-up assessments by sex.
From: Genetic regulation of body size and morphology from adolescence to early adulthood
Initial assessment | Follow-up assessment | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Male | Female | Male | Female | |||||
mean | SD | mean | SD | mean | SD | mean | SD | |
Age years | 11.7 | 0.39 | 11.7 | 0.46 | 14.8 | 0.49 | 18.3 | 0.71 |
Height cm | 149 | 7.02 | 151 | 7.31 | 170 | 7.85 | 166 | 6.4 |
Sitting height cm | 77.1 | 3.48 | 78.2 | 4.12 | 86.8 | 4.47 | 87.1 | 3.25 |
Knee height cm | 46.7 | 2.84 | 46.8 | 2.77 | 52.9 | 2.85 | 50.5 | 2.63 |
Buttock-knee length cm | 51.7 | 3.23 | 52.7 | 3.44 | 59.1 | 3.34 | 58.4 | 2.94 |
Foot length left cm | 23.0 | 1.42 | 22.5 | 1.31 | 25.7 | 1.38 | 23.5 | 1.25 |
Foot length right cm | 23.1 | 1.38 | 22.5 | 1.32 | 25.7 | 1.37 | 23.6 | 1.25 |
Head circumference cm | 54.1 | 1.62 | 54.1 | 1.75 | 55.9 | 1.68 | 55.5 | 1.75 |
Head breadth cm | 14.4 | 0.48 | 14.3 | 0.50 | 14.9 | 0.53 | 14.6 | 0.52 |
Face height cm | 20.7 | 1.09 | 20.0 | 1.12 | 21.8 | 1.07 | 20.8 | 1.03 |
Head length 1 cm | 18.6 | 0.70 | 18.3 | 0.81 | 19.0 | 0.84 | 18.8 | 0.82 |
Head length 2 cm | 16.8 | 0.86 | 16.4 | 0.95 | 17.3 | 0.95 | 17.2 | 0.84 |
Weight kg | 41.3 | 9.53 | 44.5 | 11.26 | 61.7 | 13.03 | 65.2 | 14.73 |
BMI kg/m2 | 18.4 | 3.22 | 19.4 | 3.73 | 21.2 | 3.58 | 23.7 | 4.91 |
Arm circumference cm | 21.8 | 2.88 | 22.6 | 3.24 | 25.9 | 3.29 | 26.6 | 3.67 |
Waist circ. relaxed cm | 65.7 | 9.00 | 67.2 | 9.74 | 76.2 | 9.17 | 78.5 | 11.28 |
Waist circ. sucking cm | 60.6 | 8.87 | 62.6 | 9.90 | 71.1 | 9.69 | 73.2 | 11.31 |
Shoulder breadth cm | NA | NA | NA | NA | 33.8 | 3.07 | 34.2 | 2.88 |
Wrist breadth cm | NA | NA | NA | NA | 5.56 | 0.33 | 5.18 | 0.33 |
Hip breadth cm | NA | NA | NA | NA | 30.4 | 3.03 | 34.3 | 3.17 |
Biceps skinfold mm | NA | NA | NA | NA | 8.19 | 5.93 | 11.73 | 6.71 |
Triceps skinfold mm | NA | NA | NA | NA | 13.3 | 8.30 | 20.1 | 7.89 |
