ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1986.tb115951.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1986.tb115952.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractA cross‐sectional anthropometric study of 297 Aboriginal children aged from 0 to 11 years, from four communities in the Murray Valley region of north‐western Victoria and south‐western New South Wales, revealed significant levels of growth retardation compared with 146 local non‐Aboriginal children. Mild, moderate and severe levels of malnutrition (according to anthropometric criteria) and high proportions of infants who were small for gestational age were found among the Aboriginal children. Levels of moderate malnutrition varied from 11% to 26% according to the standards of housing, the degree of community organization and the social pressures that were experienced by each community. The implications of these findings are discussed in terms of Aboriginal participation in primary health care.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1986.tb115953.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractA detailed cross‐sectional anthropometric study in which weight, height, three circumferences and four skinfolds were measured in 114 Aboriginal women aged 15–79 years was undertaken in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Highly significant increases with age were observed for all measurements except height. Subcutaneous fat distribution in Aboriginal women was found to be more central than in white women, and the use of triceps skinfold to predict body fat in Aboriginal women gave lower estimates of body fat in this group than did the use of multiple skinfolds. Further work is needed to determine the accuracy of applying prediction equations that are based on skinfold measurements in white women, to assess total body fat in Aboriginal women. However, the data from this study do suggest that for a given body mass index Aboriginal women have more subcutaneous fat (as assessed from four skinfold measurements) and, consequently, a higher percentage of body fat than have white women.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1986.tb115954.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractOne hundred and fifty‐one Aboriginal school children and 246 non‐Aboriginal children, all aged between 11 and 15 years, performed lung function tests with a Vitalograph spirometer. The results showed that the mean forced vital capacity was 20% larger in non‐Aboriginal children of both sexes. Similar differences were found for the one‐second forced expiratory volume, which was 15% larger for the non‐Aboriginal boys and 17% larger for the non‐Aboriginal girls. Comment is made on their smoking practices.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1986.tb115955.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

AbstractYirrkala is an Aboriginal community in north‐east Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Residents aged five years and over participated in a survey to establish the prevalence and causes of anaemia. Eleven per cent were anaemic (haemoglobin level less than 110 g/L). Most of these were iron deficient, and this deficiency was attributed, at least in part, to hookworm infestation; 15% were folate deficient; none was vitamin B12deficient. There was no haemoglobinopathy, thalassaemia trait or glucose‐6‐phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency detected.

ISSN:0025-729X    

DOI:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1986.tb115956.x

出版商:Wiley    

年代:1986

数据来源: WILEY