Somatotype altitudinal variation and its relationship with the nutritional status of children in the Jujuy province, Argentina.
Lautaro D AndradeNoelia G VilcaMarcelo Isidro FigueroaJorge I MartínezEmma L Alfaro GómezJosé E DipierriPublished in: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council (2023)
Jujenean children show differential body patterns across geographic altitude which exhibit age and sex variations. Children have a differential tendency to a fat mass gain. The BMI showed some inconsistencies with somatotype, leading to a misclassification of the child nutritional status, this highlights the importance of not to treat the BMI in isolation but with other determinants of the health status.