Background: Obesity and obesity-related diseases are one of the common health problems worldwide and have also been proposed to be important predictors of blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk. The aim of our study is to determine the utility of different anthropometric measurements (body ...
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The anthropometric measurements were taken on 524 children aged 8–9 years. The error in the calculation of BMI from WOKwas very low, 0·005 kg/m2(95 % CI 0·185, 0·195 kg/m2); the agreement between the percentages of overweight (not including obesity) and obese children calculated ...
Measurements of size and shape of the human body are an important source of information for a range of scientific fields and applications. Traditional manual anthropometrics have been used extensively in medical practice and epidemiological studies to derive health risk indicators, since it has been s...
Waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) is another way to measure abdominal obesity. It’s your waist circumference divided by your hip circumference (the distance around your hips). A2019 studyinvolving more than 50,000 people found that WHR could be a good tool to predict the risk of death due to he...
Anthropometric:Translated from Greek as "measurement of man," this form of anthropology has been used to measure the physical variances in humans. Hydrostatic Weighting:This technique looks at three variables when calculating body composition: the weight of the body outside of the water, the weight...
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Stand up to get an accurate waist measurement. The tape measure should not stretch when you are taking the measurement. Wrap the tape measure around the widest part of your stomach, across your belly button. The tape measure should rest gently on your skin. ...
However, given the better sensitivity observed, the measure of CC would be superior in detecting low-weight NB [7]. Bishnupada et al. [8] used anthropometric parameters, such as mid-upper-arm circumference, CC and HC, to identify their relation with birth weight in 316 NB in Dhaka, ...