Anthropometrics - Science topic

Dear Dr. Belkadi Adel thank you so much for your kind answer.

I'm currently working in a Manufacturing Engineering team in Saudi Arabia, and we are developing some ergonomic guidelines design criteria, for manufacturing teams (ME and MO teams).

We want to stablish some ranges for the working population anthropometrics, especially those measurement related to work, such as body measurement (static and dynamic).

We are using some data from ISO 7250 for Asia region, but there is anthropometrics information mainly from Japan, Korea and Thailand.

I wish we can have some similar research in MENA countries so we can use proper data regarding working population. If you know any researchers that is involved with industrial ergonomics research around the area, I'll be glad to contact them.

Absolutely! On all counts!

Hello, I'm attempting to calculate the somatotype, but I'm having trouble locating the Excel file. Could you please provide guidance on where I can find it? Thank you!

@Muhammad,

Oh, tnx for this answer.

I'll following those researchers articles.

Tnx alot for your help.

The availability of practical experience in the maintenance e and repair of agricultural equipment and knowledge of the type of equipment or machine design are to be modified .without changing the technical specification of the machine

In regards to anthropometrics you could measure height, weight, body composition, upper/lower limbs length. You could also classify players by body type.

For physical fitness parameters I would suggest doing some tests on maximal strength, power, speed, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular endurance.

For skills, each player will be proficient in a particular skill according to their role on the court, make sure to account for that. You could probably create a set of basketball specific drills, maybe 3, highlighting dexterity with the ball, dribbling skills, and or shooting skills.

Regarding tactics, it will be important to evaluate players during one or more games, or even practice. You could look for in-game intelligence (assist, defense, rebounds, possess) spatial awareness, efficiency of movements.

It is very expensive metode for screeing much more patients

Hello Dr. Mohammad Zahir Ullah

That was actually really hard! A lot of journals on this topic charge for submission and publication.

I hope these are ok - sometimes it was not really totally clear it was free but it sounds like it. I suggest you email the office(s) to confirm.

- Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics

- Human Nutrition and Metabolism

- Clinical Nutrition

Dear Marcio,

there are many indicators that can impact body composition. using the mathematical formula for these studies is not suitable for journal publications. in addition, wheelchair users are suffering from sarcopenia which significantly makes bias in the composision. Do you have any specific aims?

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Hi dear Francisco.

In the past, architects used tools such as chains, compasses, solar compasses. To measure the distance between two points, chains with equal grains and a certain size were used. Using a solar compass and with the help of the sun and stars, they determined the direction and latitude of a point. In addition, the solar compass could help measure horizontal angles and determine the true north. Measuring tapes were also used to determine short distances.

And, naturally, you'll have to explain in the Discussion section why certain variables were significant--but just as important--why certain variables were not. Reporting non-significance is a good thing too.

There, you have it!

Dear Walter,

I think this might be helpfull:

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MT is a very useful tool to validate any research.The best way to collect Data in MT should involve both qualitative and quantitative methods.

For quantitative methods u can use statistical tests and for qualitative methods U can make themes and later on cross check with the quantitative data

Muscle mass can be easily obtained using BIA-bioelectric impedance analysis as an indirect method. It is very important to do it according to a measurement protocol. Results include total muscle mass and skeletal muscle mass.

Renee, thanks for the interesting question: I found a few sources about this topic:

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anthropometry depends on having a partner or not according to the amazing study of Sittig and Freudenthal(1951) in which they measured 5001 Dutch female to develop a new sizing system for the company Bijenkorf. In that book they included a graph about the body weight depending being maried or not. And surprisingly the married female growth in weight (don't need to search anymore...)

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Another more recent source is about anthropomery of celebrities: https://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/news/g3939/celebrity-couples-with-major-height-difference/

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The best source is from Plos One after analysing 12k couples in UK. One of the results says the correlation is 0 .18 which is positive but very low. Read the whole paper on

kind regards

Johan

I recommend you the following publications:

Dear Karl-Johan,

I think you need to take a stratified sample. You may also need to cross-tabulate frequencies of your population for your four different parameters. If you cna split each up into an interval then you can calculate the freqeuncy of each combination then take a random sample that has the same frequency for each combination.

For example, if 2.3% of your population were female, between the age of 30 and 35 with a BMI between 18 and 20 and a height between 1.4 and 1.5 and your sample size was 1000 you would randomly select 23 members of your population that had this combination of values.

Would be interested to know more about this project and hope to collaborate. 

Francisco,

For wood and charcoal/carbon 14C dating is fairly reliable. It really isn't that good for something dating newer than around 1850, but since Alhambra dates earlier than that a recent date would answer your question too. As I said, the carbon in wrought iron might be used to date the doors, but I am not certain and also don't know how large a sample would be needed if it was possible. Lime mortar and lime plaster that uses calcium carbonate can be dated by 14C, though it takes a larger sample than normal carbon dating. Ceramics can be dated using thermoluminescence. Tree ring dating for the wood is the most accurate, but there needs to be a sufficient number of rings in the sample in order to compare with known baseline data in that area if established.

JAG

You would have to provide more information in regard to the kind of data you are using for your variables.

How have you measured your independent variables? (i.e. categorical, continuous etc.)

What is your outcome/dependent variable?

Thank´s Thom

Some software is directed  for sports performance improvements. A motion video is used.

Thank you very much for your help and suggestion. it is really important to have such a model

Dear Antonio, There are the following articles :

International Journal of Obesity 2006;30(6):988-92.

Regards

dear Arun Ariyapattan

please study the attached file, if needed, let me know for sending more ppaers.

good luck

Thank you.

The KIGGS study of RKI should be a good source for children and adolescents. The RKI data collection on the adult population will also help. RKI offers free access to survey data. 

good luck!

Correlations are dependent on the populations of concern, considering factors such as gender, age range, selection criteria (occupation - military or civilian, factory of office workers, etc.), health and so forth, and what kinds of body tissue are included.  If the data involve only bones (as in skeletons), the data are likely normally distributed (or nearly so) for large, homogeneous samples.  If you have the coefficient of variation for the two dimensions, the ratio of such coefficients (maxillary canine vs. bizygomatic breadth) may be a good predictor of coefficient of correlation. Where skin and fatty tissue are included (for the bizygomatic breadth), the correlation is likely lower than for bone-only breadth.  Closest example of real numbers i have for "skin-included" dimensions  is Head Breadth ((eu)L- (eu)R) vs. Bizygomatic Breadth, which is  0.643 for large samples of U. S. Army females.  You can  Google  for "Maxillary Intercanine"  studies  (but I did not see any mention of bizygomatic breadth therein)..

The whole point about the 2007 WHO standards is that they were based on a highly selected sample of women from 6 countries who were high SES, well educated, provided a constraint free environment during pregnancy (no smoking, alcohol, drugs etc.), and followed WHO breast feeding guidelines.  The premise is that such women produce babies who have equal potential for growth.  

Not sure what is meant by "successful" WHO standards.  If you mean do they accurately identify local/national growth patterns then the answer is usually "No" because they are standards of optimal growth not references of growth "as is".  Locally produced cross-sectional references ought to better reflect the absolute size of samples of local children but cannot be used to monitor the growth of individual children because they are not longitudinal standards. See the original WHO publications to understand the difference between references and standards. 

If you follow the Methods of the WHO you will end up with a growth standard that is not significantly different from the WHO standard.  My guess is that "local databases at sub-regional levels through local...studies" will not conform to the WHO selection criteria. It is also highly unlikely that any "local" growth study would take more than height, weight, head and arm circumference and perhaps abdominal circumference.  Few, if any, studies would have other anthropometric measures.  Also a "standard" is the result of a longitudinal study and I would guess that most "local" studies are cross-sectional allowing the creation of growth "references" but not growth "standards".   

Hello.

I attach a thesis on this topic.

Best regards.

We have published comprehensive anthropometric database for some population groups settled in Himalayas. 1. Tibetan morphology and clines of Genetical variations in Tibet, Vijender Bhalla, the journal of Anthropological Society of Nippon, vol. 84 (3) , 230-245, 1976. 2. Malaneese of Malana Glen: Analysis of Morphometrics data and ethnic relationship with some neighbouring populations of Himachal Pradesh, India., P. Sharma and V. Bhalla, Anthropologischer Anzieger, 45(4): 337-350, 1987. The article at sr. No. 1 is uploaded to my research gate profile. You may down load the same. For the 2nd article pl consult the journal. 

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Be careful that baseline values are similar, because percentage change is very sensitive to them. The more extreme the initial score, the greater the possibility of change.

I have no faith in Cohen's d as a measure of effect size. No-one understands it, and it critically depends on the standard deviation, which is a) non-robust to outliers and b) non-robust to differences in shape of distribution. It's bandied about in the literature, but no good clinical decision I'm aware of was ever made on the basis of the size of d.

(An open appeal for evidence to the contrary!)

What's wrong with calculating the difference between the groups post-treatment with pre-treatment values as a covariate? Hard to know unless you have a specific hypothesis about Cohen's d.

Dear Pawel Posluszny.

Several of our colleagues have suggested interesting solutions to solve your problem. Therefore, any additional information would be repeating what has already been said so I send you two references, one for appendicular mass calculation of old and the other for general use.

Martin, A.D.; Spenst, L.F.; Drinkwater, D.T.; Clary, J.P. Anthropometic estimation of muscle mass. Med Sci Sports Exerc. 1990; 22:729-33.

Piettra Moura Pereira Galvão, Danny Alcantara da Silva, Gilberto Moreira Santos, Luiz andAmandio Petroski Edition Aristides Rihan Gallagher. Development and validation of anthropometric equations to estimate appendicular muscle mass in elderly women. Nutrition Journal. 2013; http: www.nutritionj.comcontentpdf1475-2891-12-92.pdf

Additionally, I suggest reading the chapter: Estimation of Muscle Mass.In: Human Body Composition. Roche, A.F.; Heynsfield, S.B.; Lohman, T.G.

Good luck

 Amandio Geraldes

Dear Ben,

I hope that the following papers helps your work in some small way:

Sultana T, Karim MN, Ahmed T, Hossain MI. Assessment of under nutrition of Bangladeshi adults using anthropometry: can body mass index be replaced by mid-upper-arm-circumference? PLoS One. 2015;10(4):e0121456. http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0121456&representation=PDF

Agrawal KN, Singh RKP, Satapathy KK. Anthropometric considerations of farm tools/machinery design for tribal workers of northeastern India. Agricultural Engineering International: the CIGR Ejournal. Manuscript MES 1406 Vol. XII. March,2010. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277097841_Anthropometric_considerations_of_farm_toolsmachinery_design_for_tribal_workers_of_northeastern_India

Bose K, Bisai S, Das P, Dikshit S, Pradhan S. Inter-relationships of income, chronic energy deficiency, morbidity and hospitalization among adult male slum dwellers of Midnapore, West Bengal, India. J Biosoc Sci. 2007;39(5):779-86. http://www.academia.edu/4161182/INTER-RELATIONSHIPS_OF_INCOME_CHRONIC_ENERGY_DEFICIENCY_MORBIDITY_AND_HOSPITALIZATION_AMONG_ADULT_MALE_SLUM_DWELLERS_OF_MIDNAPORE_WEST_BENGAL_INDIA

Khongsdier R, Varte R, Mukherjee N. Excess male chronic energy deficiency among adolescents: a cross-sectional study in the context of patrilineal and matrilineal societies in Northeast India. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2005;59(9):1007-14. http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v59/n9/pdf/1602205a.pdf

Khongsdier R, Mukherjee N. Growth and nutritional status of Khasi boys in Northeast India relating to exogamous marriages and socioeconomic classes. Am J Phys Anthropol. 2003;122(2):162-70. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/10587653_Growth_and_nutritional_status_of_Khasi_boys_in_Northeast_India_relating_to_exogamous_marriages_and_socioeconomic_classes

Best wishes from Germany

Martin

Dear  Khushboo Verma,

The variation in the prevalence of these indicators is due to the population to which the measurements are taken. That is why several authors associate nutritional status with socioeconomic and demographic factors, and viceversa. It is important to understand the association and involvement of economic's factors and the access to some food that are also found related. I have built a table that show how in some cases when you do not have anthropometric measures for nutritional status, it is done through economic indicators. I leave the link if it's any response .

Regards.

as per available experience, i find all available sizes are reasonably fine. but problem lies with less possible difference in available size in OT

Hello, thank you very much for the reply.

However, I`m looking for relationship between anthropometric measurements related to bone, and fat.

Anyway, thanks, I had not taken into account the mineral density.

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MH

Same question- what anthropometric measure do you want? Arm span can give an estimation of height. Using one of three methods, height is used to establish an ideal body weight. For obese subjects, arm and waist circumferences are best for tracking improvement in weight loss interventions.