An anthropometric comparative study of school children 1990–2000: A retrospective report

The general ecological situation of the Silesian population was described as a global catastrophe. In the first stage (1990–1993) of our study, a population of 1810 Silesian children, 7–9 years of age, was compared to a group of 780 children of the same age living in the Beskidy Mts. The second stage (1998–2000) involved similar populations from the same regions. Appearance of incorrect body posture in mountain children is most often encountered when we compare subgroups of mountain children on the basis of their schools' level above the sea: i.e. the higher they live the less frequent the lesions are. We conclude that the results of the socio-economic transformation undergone by the country and region has changed the distribution of potential ecologically catastrophic areas adding new ones to already existing ones and allowing only slow recovery.