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- Title
A SHORT REVIEW OF CONSCRIPTS STUDIES AND SECULAR TREND OF EIGHTEEN- YEAR- OLD CONSCRIPTS' HEIGHT AND WEIGHT IN TARTU AND TARTU COUNTY.
- Authors
Lintsi, Mart; Kaarma, Helje
- Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the secular trend of changes in the height and weight of 18-year-old schoolboys and conscripts from the town of Tartu and Tartu county. Another aim of the present study was to give a short review of research of conscripts. 1459 conscripts at the age of 18 years from the town of Tartu and Tartu county were recruited for the study. Thirty-five anthropometric variables and twelve skinfolds were measured according to the recommendations of R. Martin and R. Knussmann. The data of their mean height and mean weight were compared with the same data of earlier studies of conscripts or 18-year-old schoolboys of town Tartu and Tartu county. The study showed that from 1886 to 1998-2002 the mean height of Tartu and Tartu county conscripts had increased by 11.3 cm. From 1978 the mean height increase stopped. The mean weight of conscripts continued to increase especially as compared with the mean weight of Tartu schoolboys in 1978. The mean height of Tartu and Tartu county conscripts was at the same level as the mean height of their peers from Finland, Sweden, Norway and Germany. The situation of the mean weight is different. Tartu and Tartu county conscripts' mean weight was lower than the mean weight of their peers from Finland, Sweden and Germany.
- Subjects
TARTU (Estonia); ESTONIA; STATURE; BODY weight; BOYS' health; ANTHROPOMETRY
- Publication
Papers on Anthropology, 2003, Vol 12, p133
- ISSN
1406-0140
- Publication type
Article