Socioeconomic status, sex, age, and ethnicity as determinants of body fat distribution for Guatemalan children
✍ Scribed by Barry Bogin; Timothy Sullivan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 658 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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✦ Synopsis
The distribution of subcutaneous fat at the triceps and subscapular skinfold sites is described for four groups of children living in Guatemala. These groups are (1) high socioeconomic status (SES) children of Ladino (mixed Spanish and Indian) ancestry, (2) high SES children of European ancestry, (3) low SES Ladino children, and (4) very low SES Indian children. The method of Healy and Tanner (1981) is used, employing regression and principal components analysis of log transformed skinfold values to divide "fatness" into two uncorrelated variables: size (amount of fat) and shape (fat pattern). Significant differences exist between groups in size, with lower SES groups having less fat than higher SES groups. No significant difference in fat pattern exists between the high SES Ladino and high SES European children. Significant differences do exist between the high SES groups and the low SES groups.