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Joong-Myung Choi¹, Ji-Yeong Kim¹, Bong-Keun Choe¹, Chong-Guk Lee², Jin-Soo Moon², Young-Taek Kim³, Eun-Kyeong Jeong³, Jee-Hye Choi¹, Kyung-Sik Choi¹, and Ja-Hee Kim³. (1) Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyunghee university, Hoegi-1, Dongdaemungu, Seoul, 130-701, South Korea, +82-11-479-2901, jmchoi@khu.ac.kr, (2) Department of Pediatrics, Inje university Ilsan Paik hospital, 2240, Daehwa-dong, Ilsan-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do, 411-706, South Korea, (3) Division of Chronic Disease Surveillance, Korea Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 5, Nokbeon-dong, Eunpyung-gu, Seoul, 122-701, South Korea

We undertook a national survey to establish a new standard by analyzing chronological changes of anthropometry from 1975 to 2005. Sixty eight thousand and seven hundred and ninety boys and 62,557 girls were recruited for this study across the nation. Anthropometric data (weight, height, and etc.) were measured. The mean heights of girls have been changed remarkably at the age of 12 from 142.0 cm, 1975 to 154.2 cm, 2005. As for boys, the mean height was greatly increased at the age of 13 (147.5 cm, 1975; 162.0 cm, 2005). The mean weights of boys and girls at the same ages were also accordingly increased (boys, 37.4 kg in 1975 and 55.8 kg in 2005; girls, 33.6 kg and 47.2 kg, respectively). The mean heights of boys and girls have been changed at the age of 17 (boys, 166.4 cm in 1975 and 173.1 cm in 2005; girls, 156.3 cm and 160.2 cm, respectively). The mean weights at the same ages were 55.8 kg in 1975 and 68.5 kg in 2005 for boys and 50.1 kg in 1975 and 55.9 kg in 2005 for girls. The results of this survey indicate that the growth and developmental status of Korean children and adolescents has been changed substantially compared with those in 1975, 1985 and 1998. Thus the nationwide survey in every 5 year will be of benefit to establish the reference standard of the growth of children and adolescents in accordance with the socioeconomic, environmental and nutritional changes.

Learning Objectives:

• At the end of this session the participant will be able to identify the chronological changes of anthropometry in children and adolescents for three decades in Korea; evaluate the different patterns of anthropometric changes between developed western countries and Korea

Keywords: Children and Adolescents, Change

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No