Browsing by Subject "tibia"

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Stunting, adiposity, and the individual-level "dual burden" among urban lowland and rural highland peruvian children

Pomeroy, Emma; Stock, Jay T.; Stanojevic, Sanja; Miranda, J. Jaime; Cole, Tim J.; Wells, Jonathan C.K. (Wiley, 2014)

Background: The causes of the "dual burden" of stunting and obesity remain unclear, and its existence at the individual level varies between populations. We investigate whether the individual dual burden differentially ...
Trade-Offs in Relative Limb Length among Peruvian Children: Extending the Thrifty Phenotype Hypothesis to Limb Proportions

Pomeroy, E.; Stock, J.T.; Stanojevic, S.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Cole, T.J.; Wells, J.C.K. (Public Library of Science, 2012)

Background and Methods: Both the concept of 'brain-sparing' growth and associations between relative lower limb length, childhood environment and adult disease risk are well established. Furthermore, tibia length is suggested ...

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