Abstract
Background Armenian, Albanian and Greek children attending primary and secondary schools in Athens Greece were screened. These three ethnic groups comprise a rather homogeneous genetically population, each of them being culturally a closed social group population. This results in a very interesting group of people from the genetic point of view. The examination and analysis of various anthropometric parameters could reveal and provide useful baseline information for understanding of truncal asymmetry formation, the preliminary condition of spinal deformity.
Highlights
Armenian, Albanian and Greek children attending primary and secondary schools in Athens Greece were screened
In boys aged 5-10 years, in all sitting forward bending position (sitFBP) greater symmetry percentages observed in Armenian compared with Albanian and Greek, [in Thoracic (T) p=0.05, Thoracolumbar (ThL)p=0.01, and Lumbar (L) p=0.003]
In Armenian group, laterality was correlated with symmetry / asymmetry in L standing FBP (stdFBP), p=0.033
Summary
TB Grivas1*, A Kasartzian, C Mazioti, C Mihas, C Aggouris, G Triantafyllopoulos, N Dimitrakos, I Katsoulis. From 8th International Conference on Conservative Management of Spinal Deformities and SOSORT 2011 Annual Meeting Barcelona, Spain. 19-21 May 2011
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