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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 18, 421-425, Copyright © 1966 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc.

Growth and Sexual Development of Male Subjects in an Egyptian Oasis

V. D. COBLE M.D.1, A. R. SCHULERT PH.D.1, and Z. FARID M.D.1

1 From the Medical and Biochemistry Departments, U. S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 3, Cairo, U.A.R. and Division of Nutrition, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

Dwarfism and hypogonadism described in the Kharga Oasis in 1962 were no longer present in the eleven male subjects on whom follow-up information could be obtained in 1965. It now appears that these subjects, who have obtained full sexual development and a stature comparable to their peers, were merely slower in maturing. The cause and extent of delay in maturation are unclear because of incomplete information on the development potential of the male subjects in Kharga and the multiple factors present in Kharga which might have influenced growth and development: level of protein-calorie nutriture, lack of iodine and the effects of the level of zinc and iron nutriture. These subjects did not have schistosomiasis and hookworm, two factors commonly thought to retard growth and development in Egypt.




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