SECONDARY SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT IN RURAL AND URBAN SOUTH-AFRICAN BLACK-CHILDREN

被引：46

作者：

CAMERON, N ^{[1
]}

GRIEVE, CA ^{[1
]}

KRUGER, A ^{[1
]}

LESCHNER, KF ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV WITWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG 2001, SOUTH AFRICA

来源：

ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY | 1993年 / 20卷 / 06期

基金：

英国医学研究理事会;

关键词：

D O I：

10.1080/03014469300002992

中图分类号：

Q98 [人类学];

学科分类号：

030303 ;

摘要：

The timing and duration of secondary sexual development in two samples of rural and urban South African black children were investigated using the Tanner staging techniques and compared to similar data from Switzerland and England. In general rural black children were consistently delayed in the age at which they entered the events of puberty, and took longer to pass through each of the stages. Urban black children, from good socioeconomic backgrounds, were advanced in relation to their rural peers and slightly ahead of the European samples. There were no significant differences in the sequence of events. Estimates of testicular volume on the well-off urban boys demonstrated that they exhibited similar volumes to European boys at similar ages. It is suggested that the British clinical longitudinal growth standards could be effectively used to sensitively monitor the growth and maturation of black urban children from good socioeconomic backgrounds.

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页码：583 / 593

页数：11

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