Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS
OF ROMA WOMEN POPULATION
IN VIROVITICA-PODRAVINA COUNTY, CROATIA
AU  - ŠEGREGUR J
AU  - ŠEGREGUR D
Y1  - 2020
VL  - 58
IS  - 1
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 53
EP  - 62
KW  - Roma women – Anthropometric wharacteristics – Pregnancy
N2  - 
N2  - The aim of this study was to present and compare anthropometric characteristics of Roma pregnant
women in Virovitica-Podravina County to the majoritarian non-Roma group. A retrospective study on deliveries of
Roma women at the Maternity Ward of the General Hospital Virovitica, Croatia, was carried out in the period from
1991 to 2010. The study included 204 Roma and 408 non-Roma pregnant women. The values analysed were
prepregnancy body weight and height, body mass index (BMI), body weight before delivery, gestational weight gain
(GWG) and external dimensions of the pelvis. Roma women give birth while being on average younger, 7.6 cm smaller,
4.70 kg lighter at the beginning and 5.13 kg at the end of the pregnancy, compared to the non-Roma women. The
values of BMI and GWG are similar in both groups, however a higher frequency of the underweight, overweight and
obese pregnant women was found in the Roma group. All three outer dimensions of the pelvis (Distancia cristarum,
spinarum and trochanterica) are on average 1 cm smaller in Roma group. The differences in anthropometric
characteristics between Roma and non-Roma pregnant women in Virovitica-Podravina County can be explained by
ethnical origin, interaction with environmental factors and lifestyle.
ER  -