Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation

352 Pages·2001·7.7 MB·English

by  L. D. Voss (auth.)

PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN GROWTH,
DEVELOPMENT AND MATURATION
A tribute to Professor Sudhir Ranjan Das
PERSPECTIVES IN HUMAN
GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT
AND MATURATION
edited by
Parasmani Dasgupta
Anthroplogy and Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute,
Calcutta, India
and
Roland Hauspie
Laboratory ofA nthropogenetics, Free University Brussels, Belgium
Springer-Science+Business Media, B.Y.
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ISBN 978-90-481-5820-1 ISBN 978-94-015-9801-9 (eBook)
DOl 10.1007/978-94-015-9801-9
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of contributors .................................................................................. .ix
Foreword .................................................................................. xiii
Editors note ........................................................................................... xv
Methodological Aspects of Growth Studies ................................................. 1
The Measurement of Human Growth: A Historical Review
L.D. Voss ........................................................................................... 3
2 Individual Physical Growth Models and Biological Parameters of
Japanese
T. Shohoji, T. Sumiya ..................................................................... 17
3 Smoothing Centile Curves of Height of Basque Boys and Girls by
the Application of the LMS-Method
J. Rosique, L. San Martin, J.R. Fernandez-L6pez, I. Salces, E.
Rebato, A. Vinagre, C. Susanne ......................................................... 33
4 A New International Growth Reference for Young Children
M. de Onis, C.G. Victora, C. Garza, E.A.J.R. Frongillo, T. Cole ........... .45
5 Fels and Tanner-Whitehouse Skeletal Ages of School Children 7-13
Years in Oaxaca, Mexico
M.E. Pella Reyes, R.M. Malina ......................................................... 55
6 Assessment of Childhood and Adolescents Body Composition: A
Practical Guide
A. Pietrobelli, M. Heo, M.S. Faith ..................................................... 67
Genetic and Environmental Factors ......................................................... 77
7 Genetics of Complex Traits with Particular Attention to Fat
Patterning
D.C. Rao, P.P. Majumder ................................................................. 79
8 Subcutaeneous Adipose Tissue Distribution in 7-to 16-Year Old
Boys of Calcutta in relation to socio-economic level
E. Rebato, J. Rosique, A. Pietrobelli, M. Chatterjee, S. Chatterjee,
R. Saha, P. Dasgupta ....................................................................... 91
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9 Dentofacial Morphology, Growth and Genetics: A Study of
Australian Aborigines
T. Brown, G. Townsend ................................................................. 109
10 Riddles in Human Development Patterns: a Few Family Case Study
R.D. Singh ................................................................................... 123
11 Nutrition in Venezuela at the End of the Millennium
M. L6pez-Blanco ........................................................................... 129
12 Thoughts on Secular Trends in Growth and Development
P.B. Eveleth ................................................................................. 137
13 Secular Trends and Longterm Serial Growth Studies
A.F. Roche, B. Towne ................................................................... 147
14 Secular Trends in Body Height -Indicator of General Improvement
in Living Conditions or of a Change in Specific Factors?
M. Henneberg ............................................................................... 159
15 Patterns of Growth and Scholastic Performance - A Case Study of
the Associated Factors
K.V. Rao, N. Balakrishna, S. Veena ................................................. 169
16 Mental Ability and Cognitive Thinking in Relation to Sex,
Pubertal Stage and Socio-Economic Background
G. Tanner-Lindgren ........................................................................ 179
Population Differences in Growth ......................................................... 203
17 How Genetic Are Human Body Proportions?
B. Bogin, M. Kapell, M.1. Varela Silva, B. Orden, P.K. Smith, J.
Loucky ........................................................................................ 205
18 The Sarsuna-Barisha Longitudinal Growth Study: Dynamics of
Growth
R.C. Hauspie, P. Dasgupta .............................................................. 223
19 Linear Components of Growth Among Rural Indian Children
S. Rao ......................................................................................... 237
20 Growth Stunting among Children, Aged Birth to 5 Years, in Peri-Urban
Kathmandu, Nepal
T. Moffat ...................................................................................... 251
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21 Ethnic and Sex Differences in the Skelic Index among Fijian and
Samoan Children
T. Satake, K. Hattori, E. Kanazawa ................................................... 269
22 Skeletal Maturity in Children of Mixed American and Japanese
Parentage as Assessed by the TW2-Method
K. Kimura .................................................................................... 281
Biological Aspects of Growth ................................................................ 299
23 Somatotypes of Budapest Children
O.G. Eiben, A. Nemeth .................................................................. 301
24 Differential Rate of Growth of the Human Body Parts
M. Prokopec ................................................................................. 313
25 Short-term Growth
M. Hermanussen 321
26 Relations between Head Growth and Psychomotor Development in
Low-Birth-Weight Children
W. Furmaga-Jablonska, H. Chrzastek-Spruch, M. Kozlowska, A.
Orzechowski ................................................................................. 333
27 Growth in Length and Weight of Thalassemic Children in West
Bengal, India: A Mixed-Longitudinal Study
J. Banerjee, S. Saha, I. Dasgupta, D.K. Bhattacharyya, P. Dasgupta
................................................................................................... 341
Appendices ......................................................................................... 351
Life sketch of Sudhir Ranjan Das ...................................................... 353
List of publications of Sudhir Ranjan Das 357
Index ................................................................................................. 363
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Balakrishna N., National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research,
Hyderabad, India.
Banerjee 1., Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Ramakrishna Mission Seva
Pratishthan, Calcutta, India.
Bhattacharyya D.K., Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences, Ramakrishna
Mission Seva Pratisthan, Calcutta, India.
Bogin B., Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn,
Dearborn, USA.
Brown T., Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Chatterjee M., Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
Chatterjee S., Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, India.
Chrzastek-Spruch H., Department of Paediatrics Propedeutics, Medical University
School of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Cole T., Paediatric Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health,
London, United Kingdom.
Dasgupta I., Thalassemia Unit, Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences,
Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratisthan, Calcutta, India.
Dasgupta P., Indian Statistical Institute, Anthropology & Human Genetics Unit,
Calcutta, India.
de Onis M., Department of Nutrition for Health & Development, World Health
Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
Eiben 0., Department of Physical Anthropology, Eotvos Lonind University,
Budapest, Hungary.
Eveleth P.B., GSE Associates, Inc., Newburg, Maryland, USA.
Faith M.S., Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia
University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA.
Fernandez-Lopez J.R., Facultad de Ciencias, Dpto. Biologia Animal y Genetica,
Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
Frongillo E., Division of Nutritional Sciences, B 17 Savage Hall, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
Furmaga-Jablonska W., Department of Paediatrics Propedeutics, Medical University
School of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Garza C., Division of Nutritional Sciences, B 17 Savage Hall, Cornell University,
Ithaca, New York, USA.
Hattori K., Department of Health and Physical Education, Ibaraki University, Mito
Ibaraki, Japan.
Hauspie R.C. Laboratory Anthropogenetics, Free University of Brussels, Brussels,
Belgium.
Henneberg M., Department of Anatomical Sciences, University of Adelaide Medical
School, Adelaide, Australia.
Heo M., Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia
University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA.
Hermanussen M., Altenhof, Germany.
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Kanazawa E., Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at
Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan.
Kapell M., Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn,
Dearborn, USA.
Kimura K., Kimura Auxological Institute, Sayama, Japan.
Kozlowska M., Department of Paediatrics Propedeutics, Medical University School
of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Lopez-Blanco M., "Jose Maria Bengoa", Fundacion para la Alimentacion y
Nutricion, Caracas, Venezuela.
Loucky J., Department of Anthropology, Western Washington University,
Bellingham, USA.
Majumder P.P., Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical
Institute, Calcutta, India.
Malina R.M., Michigan State University, Department of Kinesiology, East
Lansing, USA.
Moffat T., Department of Anthropology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario,
Canada.
Nemeth A.N., National Centre of Public Health, Budapest, Hungary.
Orden B., Centro de Investigaciones en Genetica Basica y Aplicada (CIGEBA),
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
Orzechowski A., Department of Paediatrics Propedeutics, Medical University
School of Lublin, Lublin, Poland.
Pella Reyes M.E., escuela Nacional de Antropologia e History, Mexico City,
Mexico.
Pietrobelli A., Pediatric Unit, Policlinico "GB. Rossi", Verona University
Hospital, Verona, Italy.
Prokopec M., National Institute of Public Health, Centre for Health and Living
Conditions, Praha, Czech Republic.
Rao D.C., Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine,
St. Louis, USA.
Rao K.V., National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research,
Hyderabad, India.
Rao S., Incharge Biometry & Nutrition Group, Agharkar Research Institute, Pune,
India.
Rebato E., Facultad de Ciencias, Dpto. Biologia Animal y Genetica, Universidad
del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
Roche A.F., Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health,
Wright State University School of Medicine, Kettering, Ohio, USA.
Rosique J., Facultad de Ciencias, Dpto. Biologia Animal y Genetica, Universidad
del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
Saha R., Indian Statistical Institute, Anthropology & Human Genetics Unit,
Calcutta, India.
Saha S., Indian Statistical Institute, Applied Statistics Unit, Calcutta, India.
Salces I., Facultad de Ciencias, Dpto. Biologia Animal y Genetica, Universidad del
Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
San Martin L., Facultad de Ciencias, Dpto. Biologia Animal y Genetica,
Universidad del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
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Satake T., Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at
Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba, Japan.
Shohoji T., Faculty of Human Culture, Fukuyama University, Fukuyama, Japan.
Singh R.D., Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Windsor,
Windsor Ontario, Canada.
Smith P.K., Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn,
Dearborn, USA.
Sumiya T., Fac. of Integrated Arts & Sciences, Hiroshima University, Higashi
Hiroshima, Japan.
Susanne C., Laboratory Anthropogenetics, Free University of Brussels, Brussels,
Belgium.
Tanner J.M., Stentwood Auxological Consultants, Stenwood Coach House,
Honiton, Devon, United Kingdom.
Tanner-Lindgren G., Stentwood Auxological Consultants, Stenwood Coach House,
Honiton, Devon, United Kingdom.
Towne B., Lifespan Health Research Center, Department of Community Health,
Wright State University School of Medicine, Kettering, Ohio, USA.
Townsend G., Dental School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
Varela Silva M.I., Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Michigan
Dearborn, Dearborn, USA.
Veena S., National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research,
Hyderabad, India.
Victora C.G., Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brasil.
Vinagre A., Facultad de Ciencias, Dpto. Biologia Animal y Genetica, Universidad
del Pais Vasco, Bilbao, Spain.
Voss L., Early Bird Research Centre, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, United
Kingdom.
FOREWORD
One morning in 1969, out of the blue, I received a letter which both distressed and
astonished me. It was from a Prof. S.R. Das in Calcutta, who requested me to
accept, for eventual analysis, a mountain of anthropometric data he had accumulated,
as he was ill and did not expect to survive to analyse it himself. The data provided
the astonishment; twenty-two anthropometric characters recorded every six months
or a year, over a period of 14 years, in a mixed longitudinal study of some 560
children, aged six months to twenty years. Most were in families with siblings also
in the study, and every child was measured every time by S.R. Das himself. The
archive was unique, combining the personal anthropometry of R.H. Whitehouse in
the Harpenden Growth Study and the family approach of the Fels Growth Study.
This was a study of which neither I, nor anyone of my acquaintance, had heard.
Even in India, Prof. Das' work was scarcely known. It turned out Das was a
scholarly man, quiet and unassuming, absolutely committed to his Sarsuna-Barisha
Growth Study,just the obverse of the professional showman.
Clearly this was not a request I could refuse, although I already had in hand
enough projects to occupy Siva himself. So, when the packing cases of data sheets
(not even punched cards) arrived, I put them, not in a storage cupboard, but under
the long table in my small office, where I saw them every time I looked up from my
desk, and where visitors barked their knees on them when they ate their sandwiches.
I felt more and more guilty at their neglect, but reality was reality, the impossible
remained impossible. Finally, a young human biologist from Brussels obtained a
Fellowship to work with me for a year. He brought no particular project of his own,
and the association of Roland Hauspie and Sudhir Ranjan Das began, for in the
meantime Das had recovered, and was working in official retirement, at the Indian
Statistical Institute. He would live to be nearly 90.
Thus history: a story of near-universal neglect of the work of a truly dedicated
man until late in life, a story perhaps more familiar in the Arts than in Sciences.
Now, however, we have this volume dedicated to Professor Das' memory, edited by
Dr. Parasmani Dasgupta, S.R. Das' former postdoctoral student, and Dr. Roland
Hauspie. It contains no less than 27 contributions, covering the whole of Human
Auxology. It is highly international in the provenance of both authors and subjects;
from Kathmandu to Caracas, Oaxaca to Alice Springs. There are papers on the
history of Auxology, on the modelling of the individual growth curve, the
construction of population growth references, growth as a measure of population
well-being, secular trend, and the much neglected subject of the relation between
mental and physical development. And, as the advertisements always say, much
more.
I salute the two editors on the successful completion what was clearly a labour of
love, and I commend this book most warmly to what I hope will be a wide circle of
readers amongst, Anthropologists, Educationists, Human Biologists and Paedia
tricians around the world.
I.M. Tanner
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