OBJECTIVES Overweight and obesity at an early age are an important criterion for predicting chronic diseases. Each anthropometric method available to assess obesity has its limitations. Recently, one of the indices proposed to better detect this complication is neck circumference (NC). The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between NC, and body mass index (BMI), and to find a...

Nutritional status of 50 newborns born to HIV infected mothers in a tertiary care hospital was compared with that of babies born to HIV seronegative mothers, as assessed by birthweight, mid arm circumference to head circumference ratio (MAC/HC), ponderal index (PI), and clinical assessment of nutritional status (CAN) score. The incidence of malnutrition in babies born to HIV infected mothers wa...

Certain body circumferences, such as the mid-upper arm circumference, are regarded as useful indicators of the nutritional status of children. The insertion tape is designed to reduce errors of measurement, prone to occur with the present tapes. At the widened origin of the new tape is a narrow slot perpendicular to the tape's long axis. The measurer threads the distal end of the tape though th...