Dynamics of physical development of school children in the city of Novosibirsk
Giguz, T.L.; Poliakov, A.Ia.; Bogachanov, N.D.
Gigiena i Sanitariia 2003(3): 50-52
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9900 PMID: 12852042 Document Number: 560800
An analysis of physical development of school-children, aged 7 to 17, and held during the recent 40 years in the city of Novosibirsk, showed an improvement only within an interval ranging from 1959 to 1969. A slow-down of development rate and a reduced length and weight of the body and muscle power were registered among school-children with the peak values falling on 2001 and being indicative of the acceleration seizure. The authors suppose that it is related with a number of unfavorable ecological-and-hygienic and social-and-economic factors.