Altitude and growth among the sherpas of the eastern Himalayas
作者:
Ranjan Gupta,
Amitabha Basu,
期刊:
American Journal of Human Biology
(WILEY Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 3,
issue 1
页码: 1-9
ISSN:1042-0533
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1002/ajhb.1310030103
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThe results of the anthropometric survey of Sherpa children of both sexes (n = 478) from high‐ and low‐altitude areas in the eastern Himalayas are presented. The study reveals that growth is slower both more prolonged in the high‐altitude Sherpas compared with growth at low altitude and that Sherpa children are the smallest of all the high‐altitude populations considered here. Sexual dimorphism is not well defined during the earlier age periods. Our skinfold thickness data from the low‐altitude Sherpas corroborate the centripetal distribution of fat found
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