Growth of Adolescents in Mali (West Africa)
- 1 April 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Tropical Pediatrics
- Vol. 35 (2) , 52-54
- https://doi.org/10.1093/tropej/35.2.52-a
Abstract
This report describes the growth curve during adolescence in rural area of Mali (West Africa). The authors measured the height, weight, and arm circumference in a sample of 1255 subjects over 14 years and below 20 years of age during a 2-year cross-sectinal study (1984-1985). The comparison of the trend of these criteria with French data suggests that Malian adolescents present a different growth curve to those observed in industrialized countries.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: