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Assessment – Anthropometrics and Functional Status
Published in Jennifer Doley, Mary J. Marian, Adult Malnutrition, 2023
Height, recorded in inches or centimeters, is a standard measure to judge growth in children, adult height, changes in height related to aging or disease, and as a factor in numerous calculations such as BMI.7 Adult height should be measured and re-measured periodically using a stadiometer (see Figure 5.1), as patient-reported height is often inaccurate and adults frequently lose height with age. Standing height should be measured with the head, shoulder, buttocks, and heels touching the wall or back of the stadiometer. Eyes are straight ahead, shoulders relaxed, arms at the side, legs straight with knees together, and feet flat on the ground and almost together.8 If the patient has kyphosis or other body conformation that restricts the ability to touch the back of the stadiometer or wall, the clinician can measure the best they are able. Should the adult be unable to stand on a scale, other approaches to obtaining height are available and can be used as surrogates for standing height.9,10 Should height be stated and cannot be verified by measurement, documentation should include “reported” or “estimated”.
Biometric Measurements and Normal Growth Parameters in a Child
Published in Nirmal Raj Gopinathan, Clinical Orthopedic Examination of a Child, 2021
Prateek Behera, Nirmal Raj Gopinathan
Height is measured using an infantometer or a stadiometer depending on the child’s age (see Chapter 16). Weight is measured using a weighing scale. The height and weight of a child when considered separately do not provide much information. When the height/length, weight, head circumference, and body mass index (BMI) are examined with respect to the child’s age, then an idea about his/her physical growth can be estimated. The best way to do so is by plotting the weight, height, etc., on growth charts like the World Health Organization (WHO) growth charts (see Chapter 16). These charts primarily indicate the nutritional status, but they are indirect indicators of a child’s overall growth.
Children’s Experiences of Illness
Published in Roger Cooter, John Pickstone, Medicine in the Twentieth Century, 2020
Other new technologies included the weighing chair and the stadiometer (an instrument for measuring height) as physicians began to assess the development of normal children. Since the late nineteenth century, isolated doctors had measured groups of children in order to compare racial and socio-economic groups. By the second decade of the twentieth century, however, all American and many British children were routinely weighed on scales and measured against wall-mounted tape-measures. The results were plotted onto charts that related their growth to previously measured groups of children. The impetus for this standardization was the belief that poorly grown and under-nourished children could be identified and aided before they became sick and, concomitantly, that without such assessments and the interventions they provoked, these youngsters would later be unfit for work or for military service in the case of boys, and for motherhood, in the case of girls.
What is the prevalence of chronic kidney disease among hypertensive non-diabetic Egyptian patients attending primary healthcare?
Published in Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2023
Silvana Nader Nagib, Saeed Abdelwahab, Ghada Essam El-Din Amin, Mohamed Farouk Allam
(b) Anthropometric measurements: Weight was measured by a digital scale. The participant stands with minimal movement with hands by their side. Shoes and excess clothing were removed. Weight was approximated to the nearest 0.5 kg.Standing height was measured using a stadiometer.Body mass index (BMI, weight/height “m2”) was calculated.Waist and hip circumference are measured using nonstretch flexible fiberglass tapes.The waist hip ratio is calculated as waist measurement divided by hip measurement (W ÷ H).
Can 5 minutes of repetitive prone press-ups and sustained prone press-ups following a period of spinal loading reverse spinal shrinkage?
Published in Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2019
Michelle M Munster, Jean-Michel Brismée, Phillip S Sizer, Kevin Browne, Birendra Dewan, Amber Litke, John L Pape, Stéphane Sobczak
Different means of measuring spinal height are available, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Boos, Wallin, Aebi, and Boesch, 1996) and radiography (Frobin et al., 1997). However, MRI is very expensive and radiography exhibits radiation effects. Another measurement option, stadiometry, is inexpensive and noninvasive (Stothart and McGill, 2000). A stadiometer is a device used for measuring overall spinal height change while controlling posture, with about 40% of these height changes attributed from the lumbar IVD segments (Kourtis et al., 2004). Stadiometry has been shown to be reliable (Healey, Fowler, Burden, and McEwan, 2005; Magnusson et al., 1996; Pennell et al., 2008) and valid (Kanlayanaphotporn, Williams, Fulton, and Trott, 2002; Kourtis et al., 2004) for measuring spinal height changes. Stadiometry has been utilized to measure spinal height changes with asymptomatic (Gerke et al., 2011; Kourtis et al., 2004; Magnusson, Pope, and Hansson, 1995; Owens et al., 2009) and symptomatic subjects diagnosed with degenerative lumbar disease (Vieira-Pellenz et al., 2014).
Green Juice in Human Metabolism: A Randomized Trial
Published in Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 2018
Marina Chiochetta, Eduarda Jardim Ferreira, Isabel Taís da Silva Moreira, Richard Chuquel Silveira de Avila, Alcyr Alves de Oliveira, Fernanda Michielin Busnello, Elizandra Braganhol, Alethéa Gatto Barschak
The nutritional status of individuals was assessed by measuring weight (kg), height (m), waist circumference (WC), and BMI. Weight was measured by a Welmy calibrated digital scale (Welmy, Brazil), which has a range of up to 200 kg. Individuals were standing erect and still at the center of the weight scale, without shoes, wearing light clothes, head up, and staring at a fixed point at eye level, to have their weight measured. Weight was measured in a reserved room. Stadiometer range was up to 2.0 m. BMI was calculated by the ratio between total body mass (kg) and squared height (m2) (20). WC was measured by inelastic and inextensible tape measure with individuals in the standing position. Measurements were taken at minimal inspiration, surrounding the abdominal region, at the midpoint between the iliac crest and the last rib (21).