Introduction: Obesity and diabetes are related disease with genetics, environmental and dietary factors implicated in there genesis. Basic anthropometric measeurements are use as indicators for the presence of these diseases. Derived measurements from these basic measures are being use more frequently with some of the basic ones at the verge of been discarded as assessment in clinical practice....

Objective: The main aim of the study was to determine best surrogate anthropometric measurement to determine low birth weight newborns among institutional deliveries in district Hoshiarpur, Panjab (India). Subjects: Subjects comprises of 504 newborns of singleton pregnant women delivering in reputed hospitals of Hoshiarpur, Panjab (India). Methods: Singleton pregnant women were booked in last t...

OBJECTIVE Central (truncal) adiposity is associated strongly with insulin resistance and diabetes. There are very few reports comparing methods of trunk fat measurement in their ability to predict glycaemia and insulin resistance. We report a comparative analysis of different trunk fat measurements in predicting glycaemia and insulin resistance in middle aged Indian men. MATERIALS AND METHODS...

OBJECTIVE Finding the anthropometric measure of visceral obesity is essential to clinical practice, because it predicts cardiovascular and metabolic risks. Sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) has been proposed as an estimate of visceral adipose tissue (VAT). The aim of the present study was to evaluate the usefulness of SAD in predicting visceral obesity by comparing SAD to other anthropometric m...

AIM To obtain the cut-off value of anthropometric measurements and nutritional status of elderly in Indonesia. METHODS A multicentre-cross sectional study was performed at 9 hospitals in Indonesia. The data collected comprises of samples characteristics, anthropometric measurements (weight, height, trisep, bisep, subscapular, suprailiac, and circumference of the hip, waist, arm, calf, and thi...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The total body skeletal muscle mass plays a significant role in both health and disease states. Accurate measurement or prediction of muscle mass is useful in physiology, nutrition and clinical medicine. There are many prediction equations derived in the Western populations to estimate skeletal muscle mass, however, regression equations best fit the population they are d...

anthropometric measurements is a simple and reliable tool for assessment of nutritional status of children. in this study height and weight of 23,170 middle class school children of 6-14 years in the city of shiraz and four rural areas were measured. results showed no difference among the rural and urban children. they were close to the third percentile of boston standard for height and weight ...

Central obesity is known to be an important risk factor in the development of metabolic syndrome and intraabdominal fat thickness has been found to be a reliable indicator of central obesity. Many anthropometric indicators have been suggested for measuring intraabdominal fat. The aim of this study was to relate various anthropometric measurements to intraabdominal fat thickness and to determine...