Study Variation of Anthropometric Variables at Time of Puberty

Abstract

Aim: Puberty is vital stage of human growth and life cycle; this stage faces different psychological, physiological changes, it is a stage when individuals are going towards maturation. For this stage human needs sufficient nutrition, lack of nutrition causes delayed puberty, stunted growth, in female, lack of nutrition cause their menarche, if female under nutrition remains in time of their child bearing it effects in child weight, due to under nutrition girl suffers from anemia. Methods: Study is done on adolescent girls of rural area of Paschim Medinipur, by anthropometric tools different anthropometric measurements were taken. Results: The overall means, standard deviations of height and weight of the adolescent girls were 150.01 cm (4.81) and 44.06 kg (5.70) respectively. Among all circumferential measurements mean Hip circumference is highest 84.85 cm (6.57) and among skin folds Triceps skinfold is 8.98 mm (2.03). According to table mean height increases (7.54) cm progressively from 10 years to 19 years, 8.76 kg weight increases from 10 to 19 years. Conclusion: Age wise change is shown in this study which proves growth pattern of adolescent period.