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- Title
LATVIAN INFANTS' CEPHALIC INDEX CHANGE DURING THE FIRST YEAR OF LIFE.
- Authors
Oginska, Anita; Vētra, Jānis; Pilmane, Māra
- Abstract
In December 2004, in the maternity hospital of the city of Riga anthropometric measuring of healthy new-borns was started. As by 1 January, 2007 the number of newborns measured was 503. Three measurements: head circumference, maximum width and maximum length of the cranium, were made to every child during one visit and the results were fixed in an inquiry form. The longitudinal or individualizing study method that involves anthropometric measurements in definite time moments at one and the same child was used. The cephalic index for the newborn boys and girls is similar in value. In the first month it decreases for both -- boys and girls. Then from the first to the sixth month the cephalic index grows faster during the first year of life, and later it is always bigger for boys than for girls. Dolichocephaly is not characteristic of newborn and infant boys in Latvia. The cephalic index at the age of one year both for boys and girls is comparatively smaller than for newborns. Brachiocephaly is the most common head shape in all referent ages. For girls this shape appears in the new-born's age, at the age of 6; but at the age of 9 and 12 months the most common is mesocephaly. However, at the age of 1 and 3 months dolichocephaly becomes more common. There is not any correlation between the head shape and the mother's weight, height, age and the way of delivery.
- Subjects
RIGA (Latvia); LATVIA; CEPHALOMETRY; INFANTS; ANTHROPOMETRY
- Publication
Papers on Anthropology, 2007, Vol 16, p198
- ISSN
1406-0140
- Publication type
Article