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Table 8
Comparison of Stature (1958 Through 1961) of Children With Retarded Osseous Development
With That of Their Next Younger Sibs
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Stature, cm
Sex
Born
1958
(35)
M
10/20/52
95.7
95.5
100.9
Subject
(72)
Sib
(291)
M
M
10/23/52
1/ 3/55
Subject (#3)
Sib
(#83)
M
M
Subject
Sib
(#85)
M
ae
Subject (+65)
1959
1960
1961
98.8
102.2
104.8
103.0
89.8
108.3
97.1
115.6
104.1
119.9
109.9
9/11/52
6/ 8/54
98.5
97.6
102.2
98.6
106.7
113.0
108.7
117.0
9/ 7/54
+86)
F
F
12/ 4/52
93.0
98.4
102.9
109.4
Subject
Sib
(26)
#84)
M
M
10/14/52
5/31/54
100.4
94.2
106.3
“98.6
111.8
104.8
116.4
109.7
10/17/54
103.5
107.5
Skeletal Ages in 8-Year-Old Children
Laboratory Data (1961) on Children Exposed
to Fallout at Ages 12 to 18 Months
Sex
2
3
5
66
33
54
65
814
M
M
M
M
F
M
F
M
16
17
16
16
20
12
15
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8 Me
8 A2
Ba
8 %2
8 Ve
8 Ke
Bly
F
**
8 "2
996
97.0
Table 10
Subject
No.
980
90.6
Table 9
Ageat
exposure,
mo
962
F
F
OF
F
Chronological
age in 1961,
yr
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++
™
*Greulich-Pyle standards.
8 "
Q1% 9
8 %A2
B Aa
Skeletal age*
In
1959
In
1961
Subject
No.
Serum
calcium,
mg %
Serum
phosphorus,
mg %
Protein
boundiodine,
y/100 ml
4%2
2%2
3%:
5 %2
7%2
7
3%:
5%
6 He
3
3 %2
6 %2
92
9 %2
6
8
2
3
6
65
83
86
9.40
9.24
8.36
8.56
8.84
9.80
4.61
4.06
3.25
4.34
4.26
4.12
8.0
8.8
10.7
7.1
8.1
12.0
5 4,
t
t
6'%2
t
Bo
10
7 "2
9
BMA2
**Control.
+No film.
tional method and the standards published by
Greulich and Pyle.*? As shown in Figure 15, the
following general trends were noted: (1) Both the
exposed and control Marshallese children tended
to be less mature skeletally at comparable chronoime |
112.5
Sib
911
955
logical ages than the norms published by Greulich
and Pyle. (2) Boys tended to be consistently less
matureskeletally than girls at comparable chrono-
logic ages. (3) Exposed children, both boys and
.
.
girls, tended to be less mature than control children. (4) When the children were grouped accord-
ing to age at exposure, the exposed compared to
the control group of both boys andgirls tended to
be less mature. Although these trends suggested
that the exposed children may be inferior in skele-
tal maturation to unexposedchildren, the differences did not reachthelevelof statistical significance. The retardation in skeletal development
was most prominentin the group of children exposed to fallout at ages 12 to 18 months. Asexpected, there was a high correlation between retardation in skeletal age and inferiority in statural
growth.
Of special interest was the group of children
now 8 years old who were exposed to fallout at
ages 12 to 18 months. The statural measurements
for these 5 children from 1958 through 1961 com-
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