NDLI: Determination of the Interrelations, Partial and Multiple, Between Various Anthropometric Measurements of College Women.

Content Provider	JAMA Network
Copyright Year	1931
Abstract	The chief purpose of this study is to discover which anthropometric combinations have diagnostic value for determining weight expectancy in college women. The measurements were taken on 815 students. The study shows that height is inadequate as a determinant for weight expectancy in girls of late adolescence and that individual weight expectancy may be determined through the use of five skeletal dimensions, the width of the hips, the height, the depth of the chest, biacromial width and chest width. The author suggests that further investigation may lead to the use of anthropometric dimensions in assessing fitness of the adolescent girl for games, sports and physical labor. The physician has long recognized that height in itself is inadequate for the determination of weight expectancy and has practically abandoned the use of height-weight-age tables in judging nutrition. The formula developed in this study is one that is easily applied, and it is
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Starting Page	2230
Page Count	1
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
ISSN	00029955
DOI	10.1001/jama.1931.02720520058032
Issue Number	26
Journal	Journal of the American Medical Association
Volume Number	96
Language	English
Publisher	American Medical Association
Publisher Date	1931-06-27
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Medicine

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