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Relationship between Height and Arm-Span of Elderly Persons in a Rural Area of Ballabgarh, Haryana
Indian Journal of Medical Specialities, 2022 Background: Progression in age causes gradual loss in height due to degenerative osteoporotic changes in bones and decrease in the disc space. Hence, proxy measures of height are required in elderly persons.
Sunanda Gupta +5 more
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Relationship Between Arm Span Measurements and Body Height in Berane [PDF]
Journal of Anthropology of Sport and Physical Education, 2018 The aim of this study was to determine whether the arm span predicted body height. The sample of respondents was 89 adolescents from Berane, 52 boys and 37 girls. The boy’s average was 17.96 years, and the girl was 18.08 years.
Milena Mitrovic
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Developing an equation for estimating body height from linear body measurements of Ethiopian adults
Journal of Physiological Anthropology, 2018 Background Measurements of erect height in older people, hospitalized and bedridden patients, and people with skeletal deformity is difficult. As a result, using body mass index for assessing nutritional status is not valid.
Alemayehu Digssie +2 more
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Is Arm-span an accurate measure of stature? A cross sectional study in North Indian population
Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2021 Background: The estimation of inter-relationship between various body parameters and stature has been an important tool in anthropometric measurements.
Pinki Rai +5 more
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Arm-span, height and age in black and white women
Applied Ergonomics, 1990 This paper presents the results of an anthropometric study of 293 Black and 298 White females, ages 35-89 years, who were healthy, non-institutionalized residents of North Carolina. All subjects were measured for arm-span and height. Correlations of the two measures were obtained for each race independently.
M F, Steele, T C, Chenier
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Academia Anatomica International, 2018 Background: Aims: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between arm span, neck length and arm span to height ratio (AHR) with simple reaction time (RT). Methods: The study was conducted amongst 501 (232 females and 269 males) untrained University of Cape Coast students whose ages ranged from 17-29 years.
Ato Ampomah Brown +5 more
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Journal of College of Medical Sciences-Nepal, 2014 Background Arm span is the most reliable anthropometric measurement to predict the stature of an individual. Age and sex have to be taken into account to the best to predict height from arm span.
RP Sah, A Kumar, RK Bhaskar
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Association of Age at Menarche with Anthropometric Measures in Punjabi Bania Girls [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2016 Introduction: Menarcheal age is the age at which menstruation begins. Menarcheal age is regarded as a sensitive indicator of physical, biological and psychological environment.
Pratibha Goyal +2 more
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The moment arms of the muscles spanning the glenohumeral joint: a systematic review [PDF]
Journal of Anatomy, 2018 Abstract The moment arm of a muscle represents its leverage or torque‐producing capacity, and is indicative of the role of the muscle in joint actuation. The objective of this study was to undertake a systematic review of the moment arms of the major muscles spanning the glenohumeral joint during abduction, flexion and axial rotation.
Freya Hik, David C. Ackland
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Standardization by arm-span for lung function test in the elderly.
Nippon Ronen Igakkai Zasshi. Japanese Journal of Geriatrics, 1989 Kypho(scolio)sis in the elderly is known to cause body height reduction, and this may result in inaccurate estimation in the calculation of various predicted values based on body height in lung function test. A total of 91 patients without any known cardiopulmonary diseases were studied for the relationship between body height, arm span and predicted ...
Yoneyama, Michiko +3 more
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