This is the first study in Dutch anthropometric historiography that describes and analyzes the development of the biological standard of living of girls and young women from the perspective of female adult stature. It is shown that adult stature of women, imprisoned in the second half of the nineteenth century and born between 1815 and 1865, slightly increased, approximately 1 cm. From 1850 onw...

Background: Children with achondroplasia (ACH) appear to lack a pubertal growth spurt in height.Aim To explore the height and its segments sitting leg length, large sample of ACH cases using curve modelling.Subjects methods: Height were measured longitudinally children, data analysed SITAR (SuperImposition by Translation Rotation) model, which estimates mean random effects for individuals defin...