Objective: The study objectives were to identify factors affecting extension ladders' angular positioning and evaluate the effectiveness of two anthropometric positioning methods. Background: A leading cause for extension ladder fall incidents is a slide-out event, usually related to suboptimal ladder inclination. An improved ladder positioning method or procedure could reduce the risk of ladde...

Protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) is a common condition in cirrhotic patients, leading to a worse prognosis, complications, poor quality of life and lower survival rates. Among ways of assessing nutritional status, there are anthropometric methods such as the evaluation of the triceps skinfold, the arm circumference, the arm muscle circumference and the body mass index, and non-anthropometric ...

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...

BACKGROUND Many studies have aimed to determine whether body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), or waist to hip ratio (WHR) best predicts hypertension in diabetic patients, with conflicting results. However, no study has examined the specific relationship between these anthropometric parameters with sustained normotension (SNT), white coat hypertension (WCHT), masked hypertension (MHT)...

OBJECTIVE To determine the anthropometric indicators of obesity in the prediction of high body fat in adolescents from a Brazilian State. METHODS The study included 1,197 adolescents (15-17 years old). The following anthropometric measurements were collected: body mass (weight and height), waist circumference and skinfolds (triceps and medial calf). The anthropometric indicators analyzed were...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to estimate the dominant handgrip strength and its correlations with some hand and arm anthropometric variables in 101 randomly selected Indian inter-university female volleyball players aged 18-25 years (mean age 20.52±1.40) from six Indian universities. METHODS Three anthropometric variables, i.e. height, weight, BMI, two hand anthropometric variables, ...

anthropometric data are used for proper design of workstation, equipment, furniture. mismatch between anthropometric dimensions and consumer products may cause health problems in human body. in this study we measured anthropometric dimensions of iranian university students in order to create a data bank for furniture design. the purpose was to measure some anthropometric dimensions of universit...

OBJECTIVE To describe anthropometric characteristics of participants of the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis of baseline data of a European prospective cohort study. SUBJECTS This analysis includes study populations from 25 centres in nine European countries. The British populations comprised both a population-based and a...