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Purpose: The purpose of this study was comparison the anthropometric characteristics of 7-14 years old girls in Kashan city with NCHs standard. For this purpose 900 girl students (450 people from elementary school and 450 people from middle grades) using cluster sampling method form Kashan schools were chosen. Anthropometric characteristics included height, weight, body mass index (BMI) and body fat percent were measured. Then data by single-sampling t-test were analyzed (P<0/05). Results: The results showed that the average of height, weight and BMI in subjects were significantly lower than the standard values (P<0/05). Body fat percent in 8-14 years old range were significantly less than the standard values (P<0/05). But the age group of 7 years old had no significant difference with the standard value. The findings also showed that the subjects didn't have good physical development. It was probably due to nutritional disorders and physical inactivity. Discussion and conclusion: These evidences suggested that to achieve international standards about above mentioned factors and to meet the needs of health in these age groups, following up and controlling the development process, performing regular physical activities, as well as have good nutrition are very essential and important.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the body mass index among the different age groups boys and girls of government school. A sample of two hundred ten boys and girls were randomly chosen. All the subjects were from government school and age was between 10-17 years. All the subjects were divided in seven age groups i.e. 10-11 years, 11-12 years, 12-13 years, 13-14 years, 14-15 years, 15-16 years and 16-17 years and from each group fifteen boys and girls were randomly selected. All the subjects in present study were tested with their height, weight and finally Body Mass Index (BMI) of each subject was obtained. Weight was measured in kilograms & portable weighing machine was used for this purpose. Height was measured in centimetres by stadiometer respectively. To compare the body mass index among different age groups and also to investigate the effects of gender on body mass index Two Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) as a statistical technique were employed at the 0.05 level of ...
Abstract: Background and Objective: Taking into account that natural growth is the most important sign of children’s health, and the fact that, the simplest and most reliable way to assess natural growth is measurement of height and weight and calculation of body mass index or analysis of anthropometry parameters, thus due to significance of this subject, the current study was designed and conducted with the intention of determining the body mass indices of rural primary school children of PIRANSHAHR City during educational year 2011-2012. Materials and Methods: In the current study, 1797 rural primary school students were selected out of total 7132 students using two-stage randomized method. Height and weight were measured and recorded using standard meter and scale according to the related directions. Slimness status, overweight and obesity were assessed based on body mass index for age and gender compared to standard percentiles of Center for Diseases Control (CDC 2000). Available percentiles were used to assess short height for gender and age and percentiles below 3 was considered as short height with chronic malnutrition. Also, SPSS19 software and k-2 and t-test were used for data analysis. Findings: According to research findings, 11.55% of the children under study suffer from underweight and 2.2 of them are prone to overweight and obesity risks. Based on height versus weight standard diagram, 7.75% of children had percentile below 3 i.e. were short and 2.35% of children had percentile above 97 i.e. were tall. Short height was more frequent in girls compared to boys with significant difference (respectively, 8.5% and 7%; p=0.001). Discussion and Conclusions: Research results are suggestive of the fact that malnutrition in the form of slimness, overweight and short height is existent as a significant health problem in rural primary school students of PIRANSHAHR City.
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