Harald J. Schneider · Deutsches Ärzteblatt international · 2010
Consider Body HeightIn their large cohort study, the authors have shown unequivocally that abdominal obesity as measured by waist circumference predicts the risk of diabetes beyond the body mass index (BMI).From this they conclude that to determine the diabetes risk, waist circumference should always be included with fixed threshold values.I agree unreservedly that a measure of abdominal obesity is essential for preventing risk, but I think that waist circumference is problematic, for the following reason:A man of 1.50 meters in height would have to accumulate much more abdominal/visceral fat than a man measuring 2 meters in order to reach the same threshold value of 102 cm in waist circumference.A set maximum value in short people therefore underestimates the risk associated with abdominal fat and overestimates it in tall people (1).This potential problem can be circumvented by using a measure that includes height-for example, the waist to height ratio.Recent studies have shown that this ratio predicts cardiovascular risk to a small but statistically significant degree better than other measures of abdominal obesity (2, 3).Feller et al have avoided height related distortions in using waist circumference because they adjusted their analyses for body height.It is thus not surprising that the results remain the same if, instead of waist circumference, the waist to height ratio is used.However, this adjustment will not happen in everyday clinical practice, unless the waist to height ratio is used.
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Feller, S., Boeing, H., Pischon, T. · MDC Repository (Max-Delbrueck-Center for Molecular Medicine) · 2010
Original publication: Body Mass Index, Waist Circumference, and the Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Implications for Routine Clinical Practice by Silke Feller, Heiner Boeing, Tobias Pischon in volume 26/2010
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National Cancer Institute · Definitions · 2020
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Ferrández Longas A · PubMed · 1987
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Örjan Hallberg · Pathophysiology · 2014
The hypothesis that body-resonant radiation may affect both cancer incidence and body height was supported by the strong associations found in this study. The hypothesis was further supported by the correlation found between the incidence of cancer, body height, and the use of metal spring mattresses.
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Hermanussen, Michael, Staub, Kaspar, Assmann, Christian et al. · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) · 2014
Recent evidence suggests that social networks play an important role in the regulation of adolescent growth and adult height. We further investigated the effect of physical connectedness on height. We considered Switzerland as a geographic network with 169 nodes (district capitals) and 335 edges (connecting roads) and studied effects of connectedness on height in Swiss conscript from 1884-1891, 1908-1910, and 2004- 2009. In 1884-1891, in 1908-1910, and in 2004-2009, 1st, 2nd and 3rd order neighbouring districts significantly correlate in height (p<0.01) indicating that height in a district depends on height of physically connected neighbouring districts. The strength of the correlation depends on the order of connectedness, and declines with increasing distance. The present data suggest that people can be short because their neighbours are short; or tall because their neighbours are tall (community effect on growth). The vision adds a new dimension to the current concept of growth as a mirror of health and economic prosperity.
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Bart Hoogeboom, Ivo Alberink, Mirelle Goos · Journal of Forensic Sciences · 2009
For any measurement of a person's height in an image, a difference exists between the actual height of the person and the image measurement. In order to gain knowledge about statistical behavior of differences between actual and measured heights it is necessary to make reference recordings, e.g., of test persons under the same recording conditions. To test whether the differences are dependent on camera and further circumstances, an experiment was set up which involved the measurement of 22 test persons using three cameras of varying quality. Reproducibility of measurements per image appears to be strongly dependent on the camera (quality), whereas systematic bias differs with the view point of the camera. Operator dependency of the measurement process is found, so its repetition by different operators is recommended.
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L Pelz, Dietrich Timm, Ellen Eyermann et al. · Clinical Genetics · 1982
Disease-specific growth curves for Turner's syndrome were calculated by means of 2nd order homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients, taking different cytogenetical subtypes into account. Comparison of these growth curves between X-monosomic (n = 64) and 46,XX/45,X-mixoploid (n = 20) patients reveals no differences, in contrast to the commonly accepted opinion.
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Helmut E. Meyer · Osteoporosis International · 1996
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Marta Kowal · Figshare · 2019
A positive relationship between body height and testosterone response to physical exercise<br> Marta Kowal<sup>1</sup>, Piotr Sorokowski<sup>1</sup>*, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz<sup>2</sup>, Judyta Nowak<sup>2</sup>, Sylwester Orzechowski<sup>1</sup>, Grzegorz Żurek<sup>3</sup>, Alina Żurek<sup>1</sup>. <sup>1</sup>Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.<br> <sup>2</sup>Department of Human Biology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.<br> <sup>3</sup>Wrocław Sports University, Wrocław, Poland.<b></b> <b>*Correspondence: <br> </b>Piotr Sorokowski<br> sorokowskipiotr@yahoo.co.uk
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Kowal, Marta · Figshare · 2019
A positive relationship between body height and testosterone response to physical exercise<br> Marta Kowal<sup>1</sup>, Piotr Sorokowski<sup>1</sup>*, Agnieszka Żelaźniewicz<sup>2</sup>, Judyta Nowak<sup>2</sup>, Sylwester Orzechowski<sup>1</sup>, Grzegorz Żurek<sup>3</sup>, Alina Żurek<sup>1</sup>. <sup>1</sup>Institute of Psychology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.<br> <sup>2</sup>Department of Human Biology, University of Wrocław, Wrocław, Poland.<br> <sup>3</sup>Wrocław Sports University, Wrocław, Poland.<b></b> <b>*Correspondence: <br> </b>Piotr Sorokowski<br> sorokowskipiotr@yahoo.co.uk
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Mengmeng Du, Paul L. Auer, Shuo Jiao et al. · 2014
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Måns Magnusson, Pope Mh · Clinical Biomechanics · 1996
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Tereza Oplištilová · Digital Repository (National Repository of Grey Literature) · 2019
Title: Body height of top swimmers Objectives: The purpose of this bachelor thesis is to find out the profile of finalists and semi-finalists of the Olympic Games in 2012 in Lonod and 2016 in Rio de Janeiro in term sof body height. The thesis compares the height profile of the participants on the olympic games in the categories of men and women in general according to the individual swimming strokes, disciplines and lenit of the tracks. Methods: Data were obtained through secondary data sources from the internet. The Data was then interpreted using descriptive static characteristics. The presentation of the results of the selected variables were used pivot tables and graphical display. Results: The survey included a total of 327 male swimmers and 296 female swimmers who competed in the semi-finals and finals at the 2012 olympics and 2016. The average body height of the men was 188 cm for women and 175 cm for women. The utmost highest height of the swimmers is in the range of 200-203 cm for men and 188-189 cm for women. At more than half of the final swim- offs we find a higher average height of the swimmers. Also, when comparing the physical height of the medalists in the cases of more successful individuals the higher absolute body height prevails. In the specification of body height according to...
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Francesco Cinnirella · Electronic Theses of LMU Munich (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) · 2008
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Johannes Ipsen, Natalia Nowak‐Szczepanska, Aleksandra Gomuła et al. · Anthropologischer Anzeiger · 2016
Body height is associated with environmental conditions. It has been suggested that under poor conditions when inequality within a population increases, also the variability in height tends to increase. We studied the association of body height, within-country variability in height and geographic and historic origin in 767 growth studies carried out in 80 countries, published between 1794 and 2013, with data on N = 78,184 infants age 2 years, and N = 2,130,729 juveniles age 7 years. The studies represent almost the whole spectrum of economic diversity in human societies since the end-18(th) century. 207 studies contained data for both infants and juveniles with 50,819 subjects (age 2), and 123,078 subjects (age 7). Multiple linear regressions showed significant interactions between height, sex, historic year of the study, geographic origin, and within-study standard deviation for height with multiple R-squared = 0.527, p < 0.001, at age 2, and multiple R-squared = 0.436, p < 0.001, at age 7. Yet, the two age groups differed in respect to within-study standard deviation for height. We found a significant association between body height and within-study standard deviation for height only at age 2: tall infant populations are less variable in height (r = -0.27, p < 0.01). There was no such association in children aged 7 years. Tall children from affluent and short children from less affluent countries do not differ in the variability of body height. The data suggest that the 'environmental adversity' hypothesis for variation in growth: small mean values for height go along with large standard deviations for height, does not apply for children at age 7.
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Justyna Leszczak (10913786), Bogumiła Pniak (18605643), Mariusz Drużbicki (12040694) et al. · Figshare · 2024
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Helmut E. Meyer, Randi Selmer · Annals of Human Biology · 1999
The relation between adult body height and two socio-economic factors (income and educational level) was studied in a large, ethnically homogenous population. In the period 1980-1983 all persons aged 40-54 years (born 1926-1941) in two Norwegian counties were invited to a cardiovascular screening. Ninety per cent (or 38162 persons) of those invited attended and had their height measured. Information concerning income and education was available at an individual level from the 1980 national census. Strong, positive relations were found between mean body height and the socio-economic factors, relations that probably are due to conditions during growth influencing both height, attained education and income abilities. The difference between highest and lowest educational class was 3.3 cm in men and 3.2 cm in women, and between highest and lowest income group 3.5 cm in men and 4.2 cm in women. These differences could not be explained by the strong cohort effect of increasing height in the successive birth cohorts from 1926 to 1941 which also was evident. It should be emphasized that height only could explain a small fraction of the variance in the socio-economic factors and is thus not a usable indicator of an individual's socio-economic status. However, it might contribute with important information concerning social inequalities in groups or population.
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Joseph D. Losek, Jeffery S. Garland, David Nelson · Annals of Emergency Medicine · 1989
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Eugène Schreider · American Journal of Physical Anthropology · 1967
Abstract Dahlberg's ('43) hypothesis that heterosis is a major component of the secular trend towards increased stature is supported by the significant negative correlation between stature and the coefficient of inbreeding in 70 departments of France. This phenomenon is especially evident after the onset of puberty, (r at age 7 = −0.25 for boys: −0.24 for girls; but r at age 14 = −0.44 for boys and −0.56 for girls) and is found also in adults.
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