Relationship between height and arm span of elderly persons in an urban colony of New Delhi

Anthropometric changes take place with increasing age. Progressive loss of height makes it difficult to use height for calculation of body mass index in nutritional screening of elderly persons. There is a need to find other alternative methods which could be used as proxy measurements of height in...

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Published in:Indian journal of public health 2018-04, Vol.62 (2), p.159-162
Main Authors: Goswami, Anil, Kalaivani, Mani, Gupta, Sanjeev, Nongkynrih, Baridalyne, Pandav, Chandrakant
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Age
Age groups
Analysis
Anthropometry
Arm
Arm span
Body height
Body size
Colonies
Correlation analysis
Elderly
Fractures
Gender
Geriatrics
Health aspects
height
Mathematical analysis
New Delhi
Nutrition
Nutrition assessment
Older people
Physiological aspects
Population
Rural areas
Studies
Women
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description Anthropometric changes take place with increasing age. Progressive loss of height makes it difficult to use height for calculation of body mass index in nutritional screening of elderly persons. There is a need to find other alternative methods which could be used as proxy measurements of height in them. To assess the relationship of height and arm span and among elderly persons. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among elderly persons in urban colony of Delhi. Height and arm span of persons aged 60 years and above (n = 711) were measured according to standard methods. Correlation between arm span and height was calculated. The mean arm span was seen to be more than the mean height in all age-groups and both sexes. There was a linear relationship between height and arm-span in all age-groups. There was a strong correlation between arm span and height in all age groups. Arm span could be used instead of height as an alternative in the conventional body mass index in elderly persons.
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Fractures
Gender
Geriatrics
Health aspects
height
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Population
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Women
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