4.Journals Published in Sri Lanka
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Item Auxology of Sri Lankan children age 5 to 18 years 3.. sitting height and sub-ischial leg length(SLMA. Colombo, 1990) Wickramanayake, T.W.; Amarasinghe, S.Sitting height (SH), leg length (LL) and the rati, SH/TH have been studied in 9070 school children between 5 and 18 years, SH and LL are not influenced by ethnicity. SH, LL and the overall increment in LL are socio-economic dependent during pre-adolescence. LL velocity is greater than SH velocity during pre-adolescence , so that LL catches up with SH before puberty, which occurs earlier in children of a higher socio-economic status. Children who become tall are those with a high LL velocity during pre-adolescence and a high SH velosity after puberty. Neither poverty nor ethnicity have any influence on the relative propotion of SH to stature.Item Secular trends in the physical anthropology of the Veddas of Sri Lanka(The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1992) Wickramanayake, T.W.; Wickramanyake, E.R.Item Auxology of Sri Lankan children, age 5 to 18 years 4.. is there a need for local standards?(The Sri Lanka Medical Associaion. Colombo, 1994) Wickramanayake, T.W.; Amarasinghe, S.Item Body mass index of the Kandeganvila veddas(The Sri Lanka Medical Association. Colombo, 1994) Wikramanayake, E.R.; Wickramanayake, T.W.; Chandrasekera, M.S.BMI was calculated from the heights and weights of 37 Veddas (18 males and 19 females) measured in 1971/73 when they were living at Kandeganvila, and of 247 veddas (109 males and 138 females) measured in 1993/94 at Hennanigala South of Mahaweli System 'C', ten years after their change of habitat. Significantly lower BMI's (p0.05) was observed in the preadolescent children, bth males and females, in 1993/94. In general in the adults too a trend towards lower BMI's judged by BMI, of the relocation of the Kandeganvila veddas has been detrimental.