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...

Genetically determined sex differences in stature, musculature and cardiovascular capacity result in males having a substantial advantage over females in those sports which, in general, require strength, speed and power. It is well documented that differences in performance between highly trained men and women are considerably less than those that exist between average men and women" 2. This ju...

Treatment with growth hormone (GH) has become standard practice for replacement in GH-deficient children or pharmacotherapy in a variety of disorders with short stature. However, even today, the reported adult heights achieved often remain below the normal range. In addition, the treatment is expensive and may be associated with long-term risks. Thus, a discussion of the factors relevant for ac...

Visual analysis of human anatomical and segmental variation are valuable tools for analysing and modifying exercise positions for movement efficiency, health, and safety. The most widely known visual technique for determining whether a body segment is long, short, or normal is based on da Vinci’s 1487 Vitruvian Man. In the more than five centuries since, human height has changed. This pilot stu...

he Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) announced in 1985 that it would issue grants for a “law enforcement–based crime prevention program␣.␣.␣.␣to demonstrate the importance of crime prevention as a major police activity of equal professional stature to patrol and investigative activities in the country’s major police and sheriff’s departments.”1␣ The initiative led at least two of the demonstra...

The Dutch are the tallest people on earth. Over the last 200 years, they have grown 20 cm in height: a rapid rate of increase that points to environmental causes. This secular trend in height is echoed across all Western populations, but came to an end, or at least levelled off, much earlier than in The Netherlands. One possibility, then, is that natural selection acted congruently with these e...