Body circumference of the Han people in China

  • Jinping Bao ,
  • Lianbin Zheng
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  • 1.Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, Institute of Sports Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387
    2.Tianjin Key Laboratory of Animal and Plant Resistance, College of Life Science, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387

Received date: 2016-11-07

  Online published: 2020-07-17

Abstract

From 2009 to 2013, we measured the circumferences of head, neck, chest (normal, exhale/inhale), abdomen, hip, thigh, calf, biceps, forearm and maximum biceps on 26695 people (rural males 8174, urban males 4791, rural females 8327, urban females 5403) living in 22 provinces and autonomous regions of China. Correlation analysis between degree of circumference and latitude, longitude, and age were carried out between the urban and the rural Han, and between the northern and the southern Han. The results were as follows. 1) In male circumferences, biceps and maximum biceps values had no significant positive correlation with age, in contrast to the other ten variables, which were positively correlated with latitude. In female circumferences, all of the 12 variables were positively correlated with latitude. 2) In all male and female circumference variables, that were all positively correlated with longitude, male limb circumference was significantly negatively correlated with age. Female lower limb circumference was also significantly negatively correlated with age, but three variables of upper limb circumferences were significantly positively correlated with age. 3) In both males and females, five variables of truck and neck circumferences increased with age. 4) Between northern and southern Han males, except for circumferences of the head and biceps, values were close to each other, with the remaining ten values of northern Han being greater than those of the southern Han. 5) All 12 circumference values of northern Han females were greater than those of southern Han females. Variable differences between rural and urban Han were statistically significant, with the. circumference values of urban Han larger than the rural Han.

Cite this article

Jinping Bao , Lianbin Zheng . Body circumference of the Han people in China[J]. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 2020 , 39(01) : 152 -158 . DOI: 10.16359/j.cnki.cn11-1963/q.2017.0077

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