A comparative study on growth and development between Chinese and Croatian children

A comparative study on morphological features of Chinese Han nationality and Croatian children during growth and development was carried out, and the ethnical differences in height, sitting height, weight, chest circumference, biacromial diameter, biliac diameter and their derivative values were compared. This study shows that the ethnic speciality during pubertal stage exists in human growth and development and the physical growth difference between Chinese and Croatian children gradually reduced with the increasing age.