Ceylon Journal of Medical Science

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Author: search.filters.author.Wickramanayake, T.W.Subject: search.filters.subject.Anthropometry

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    Auxology of Sri Lankan children age 5 to 18 years 3.. sitting height and sub-ischial leg length
    (SLMA. Colombo, 1990) Wickramanayake, T.W.; Amarasinghe, S.
    Sitting height (SH), leg length (LL) and the rati, SH/TH have been studied in 9070 school children between 5 and 18 years, SH and LL are not influenced by ethnicity. SH, LL and the overall increment in LL are socio-economic dependent during pre-adolescence. LL velocity is greater than SH velocity during pre-adolescence , so that LL catches up with SH before puberty, which occurs earlier in children of a higher socio-economic status. Children who become tall are those with a high LL velocity during pre-adolescence and a high SH velosity after puberty. Neither poverty nor ethnicity have any influence on the relative propotion of SH to stature.
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    Secular trends in the physical anthropology of the Veddas of Sri Lanka
    (The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1992) Wickramanayake, T.W.; Wickramanyake, E.R.
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    Auxology of Sri Lankan children, age 5 to 18 years 4.. is there a need for local standards?
    (The Sri Lanka Medical Associaion. Colombo, 1994) Wickramanayake, T.W.; Amarasinghe, S.
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    Body mass index of the Kandeganvila veddas
    (The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1994) Wikramanayake, E.R.; Wickramanayake, T.W.; Chandrasekera, M.S.
    BMI was calculated from the heights and weights of 37 Veddas (18 males and 19 females) measured in 1971/73 when they were living at Kandeganvila, and of 247 veddas (109 males and 138 females) measured in 1993/94 at Hennanigala South of Mahaweli System 'C', ten years after their change of habitat. Significantly lower BMI's (p0.05) was observed in the preadolescent children, bth males and females, in 1993/94. In general in the adults too a trend towards lower BMI's judged by BMI, of the relocation of the Kandeganvila veddas has been detrimental.