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Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Distribution in 7- to 16-Year Old Boys of Calcutta in Relation to Socio-Economic Level

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The changes of fat distribution during the growth period are the result of changes in body shape, proportions and body composition and can be modulated by nutrition and several cultural and socio-economic factors present in human environments. The distribution of body fat can be studied in different ways, for example, i) from centripetal fat ratio or trunk extremity ratio, ii) by combining waist-hip ratio and skinfold ratios (Fiori et al. 2000), iii) by Principal Component Analysis (PCA) on a set of skinfolds (Mueller and Reid 1979, Ramirez and Mueller 1980), iv) from the residuals of the regression of each log transformed skinfold on the mean log skinfold thickness for an individual (Healy and Tanner 1981), v) from ratios of circumferences and skinfolds (Hattori et al. 1987, Rosique et al. 1994, Rebato et al. 1998) which is also a heuristic device able to extract fat patterns. However, when input variables are indices or regressions of the residuals, the size factor is avoided and the shape factor is first extracted (Baumgartner et al. 1990, Johnston et al. 1991).

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  1. Laboratory of Anthropology, Department of Animal Biology and Genetics, University of Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain

    E. Rebato & J. Rosique

  2. Paediatric Unit. Policlinico G.B. Rossi, Verona, Italy

    A. Pietrobelli

  3. Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta, India

    M. Chatterjee & S. Chatterjee

  4. Anthropology and Human Genetics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India

    R. Saha & P. Dasgupta

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Rebato, E. et al. (2001). Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Distribution in 7- to 16-Year Old Boys of Calcutta in Relation to Socio-Economic Level. In: Dasgupta, P., Hauspie, R. (eds) Perspectives in Human Growth, Development and Maturation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9801-9_8

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