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Differences between arm span and stature in white children
Journal of Adolescent Health Care: Official Publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine, 1981Arm span and stature were measured at 6-month intervals in 160 normal children from 8 to 15 years of age. The mean difference between arm span and stature is greater in boys than in girls at all ages. In boys, the mean arm span is always greater than mean stature.
Alex F Roche, Debabrata Mukherjee
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Age references for the arm span and stature of Turkish children and adolescents
Arm span reference values need to be determined in screening for certain clinical conditions.To determine arm span reference values for screening purposes in children and adolescents.Children and adolescents aged 6-17 were selected according to socio-economic levels.
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LINEAR GROWTH MEASUREMENT: A COMPARISON OF SINGLE ARM‐LENGTHS AND ARM‐SPAN
Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 1986SUMMARYAn investigation was done to determine whether the arm‐lengths of 44 children with myelomeningocele differed from those of 96 control children; whether the level of the meningocele lesion has any effect on arm‐length; and to compare the relationship between arm‐length and both stature and age.
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Are arm span measurements useful in the prediction of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women?
Osteoporosis International, 1998A consensus report on osteoporosis in The Netherlands recommends general practitioners to use an arm span-height difference of at least 3 cm as one of the criteria for suspecting osteoporosis. In this study it was investigated how well this criterion discriminates between patients with established osteoporosis and controls in a group of postmenopausal ...
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Arm Span-Height Relationships in Patients Referred for Spirometry
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 1996Abstract Arm span has been proposed as a surrogate for standing height in the prediction of lung volumes in patients with thoracic deformities or who are unable to stand. The relationship between arm span and height has previously been reported as either a fixed ratio unaffected by age or as a regression equation in which the ratio ...
J M, Parker, T A, Dillard, Y Y, Phillips
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To determine if anthropometric measures, as markers of early life environment, are associated with risk of dementia, Alzheimer disease (AD), and vascular dementia (VaD).A total of 2,798 subjects were followed as part of the Cardiovascular Health Cognition Study for an average of 5.4 years; 480 developed dementia.
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STUDY OF CORRELATION BETWEEN ARM SPAN AND STANDING HEIGHT
INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH, 2022INTRODUCTION : Height is important for personal identication & determination of growth and nutritional status of individual. Estimation of inter-relationship between various body parameters and height has been an important tool in anthropometric measurements.
Madhumita Mahato, Asis Kumar Ghosal
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Relationship between arm span and height in postmenopausal osteoporotic women
Rheumatology International, 2008Osteoporosis is a progressive systemic skeletal disease characterized by low bone density and microarchitectural deterioration of the bone. A minimum 3-cm difference between arm span and height makes up one of the criteria for suspecting osteoporosis. Therefore, it is easy to determine osteoporotic women by measuring the proportion of height to the arm
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Relationship between Height and Arm Span in Women of Different Age Groups
Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research, 2001AbstractObjectives: (1) To study the correlation between height and arm span in young, perimenopausal, and postmenopausal age groups, (2) To compare the height and arm span difference in each age group.Methods: Four hundred and eighty‐five women from menopause and gynaecologic clinics were included in the study.
A Chittacharoen, Urusa Theppisai
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