Standards of TW3 skeletal maturity for Chinese children
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Annals of Human Biology
- Vol. 35 (3), 349-354
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03014460801953781
Abstract
This study included 17 401 normal Han urban children aged 1–20 years from five cities in China in 2005. The skeletal maturity scores were assessed by the Tanner–Whitehouse 3 (TW3) method, and the smoothed centiles curves of scores (TW3-Chinese RUS and TW3-Chinese Carpal) were calculated using the LMS method. The skeletal maturity of the Chinese is approximately the same as Europeans in childhood, but the extent of TW3-RUS skeletal maturity advance in puberty and the ages of complete maturity of TW-Carpals are evidently more advanced in the Chinese.Keywords
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