Data drawn from the National Study of Health and Growth enabled an examination to be made of the attained height, weight for height, and triceps skinfold of children from one and two parent families. Children from one parent families were shorter than children from two parent families; however, once heights had been adjusted for birthweight, number of siblings, mother's height, father's height,...

WHEN I was a student I never bought a textbook of medicine. I cannot remember that I formulated any policy or thati I thought the matter out in any way but I hadJ a definite feeling that the big books were not for me. Had I not seen a statement by a reviewer 'The new edition of X's Textbook of Medicine has grown in girth but not in stature'? Well actually I had not. That brilliantly succinct an...

In the present study an attempt has been made to reconstruct stature on the basis of hand and foot measurements among Kayastha Community of Bundelkhand region of India. A total of 223 Kayastha (100 males and 123 females) ranging in age 20 to 40 years were measured for the Stature, Hand length, Hand breadth, Foot length and Foot breadth by following the standard technique. Data demonstrates that...

The aim of this anthropometric survey, conducted between 2015 and 2016 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), was to map local geographical differences in male stature and some other anthropometric characteristics (sitting height, arm span). In addition, to investigate the main environmental factors influencing physical growth, the documented values of height would be compared with available nutritio...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which childhood short stature is associated with cognitive, behavioural and chronic health problems, and whether these problems could be attributed to recognized adverse biological, psychosocial or psychological factors. METHODOLOGY At their first antenatal session, 8556 women were enrolled in a prospective study of pregnancy. When their children were 4 a...

Since the 1970s historians interested in the impact of changing social and economic conditions on health outcomes have studied record collections that contain information about adult stature. Fluctuations in mean height by year of birth are potentially informative because they should reflect conditions encountered in utero and during the early years of life. Yet, like all historical records, su...