The purpose of the present study was to examine on the growth pattern of body height and weight from the NCHS and Korean growth chart in female athletes and non-athletes 9 throagh 18 years of age.
The study design, the subjects, and the method were ...
The purpose of the present study was to examine on the growth pattern of body height and weight from the NCHS and Korean growth chart in female athletes and non-athletes 9 throagh 18 years of age.
The study design, the subjects, and the method were used by the longitudinal investigation.
The female sports events participated in this study were basketball(n=11), swimming(n=10), hockey(n=17), volleyball(n=14), ballet(n=16), athletic(n=15), table tennis(n=15), gymnastics(n=9), and non athletes(n=240).
Total subjects size was 347.
All subjects lived in Pusan city, Korea.
The data of body height and weight in this study were plotted relative to National Center for Health Statistics(1982) and Korean(1975) reference charts for statuse and weight of American and Korean girls 2 to 18 years of age, respectively.
The conclusions were as follows :
1. In the body height growth chart of NCHS, female basketball players were grown over the range of the 90th percentile, female volleyball players were grown the range of the 75∼90th percentile, female athletics were grown within the range of the 50∼75th percentile, female swimmers and hockey players were grown within the range of the 50th percentile, ballerinas were grown within the range of the 25∼50th percentile, non-athletes were grown within the range of the 25th percentile, and female gymnasts were grown within the range of the 10th percentile, respectively.
2. According to the increase of the chronological age, the body height growth of female athletes on 7 sport events maintained or increased body height growth percentile value from childhood to adolescence, on the other hand, female table tennis players were showed reversal phenomenon decreasing from within the range of the 90∼97th percentile at childhood to within that of the 50th percentile at adolescence.
3. In the body weight growth chart of NCHS, female basketball players were grown within the range of the 75th percentile, female swimmers were grown within the range of the 50th percentile, female athletics and hockey players were grown within the range of the 25~50th percentile, ballerinas and non-athletes were grown within the range of the 25th percentile, and female gymnasts were grown within the range of the 10~25th percentile, respectively.
4. According to the increase of chronological age, the body weight growth of female athletes on 6 sports events maintained the body weight growth percentile value at childhood, on the other hand, female volleyball players and table tennis players were showed decreasing phenomenon, respectively.
5. The ratio of body height and weight of female athletes on sports events showed generally low phenomenon in growth percentil value except non-athletes and swimmers.
6. The body height and weight of Korean growth chart were showed the phase difference phenomenon less about the 25th percentile degree than NCHS growth chart of the U.S.