The present study describes the anthropometrics of the Swedish workforce, aged 18-65, and compares the measurements with data collected four decades earlier. This anthropometric information is based on measurements of a total of 367 subjects, 105 males and 262 females. Of the 367 subjects, 268 responded to advertisements (Study A) and 99 were randomly selected from a community register (Study B...

Introduction: Stunting is a public health priority in low- and middle-income countries. Thus, the validity reliability of anthropometric measurement tools become critical for early stunting detection children. 
 Objective: This article aims to review use ultrasonic sensors human body measurements.
 Methods: We conducted narrative articles regarding sensor measuring anthropometrics bet...

OBJECTIVE The relationship between serum testosterone (T) levels, muscle mass and muscle force in eugonadal men is incompletely understood. As polymorphisms in the androgen receptor (AR) gene cause differences in androgen sensitivity, no straightforward correlation can be observed between the interindividual variation in T levels and different phenotypes. Therefore, we aim to investigate the re...

OBJECTIVE To determine the characteristics of hunger in young children who attend ambulatory pediatric clinics in a midwestern city. DESIGN Consecutive sample. SETTING Ambulatory pediatric clinics of an inner-city teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS English-speaking caregivers of 2578 children younger than 5 years. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Structured survey measures of hunger, family characteri...

OBJECTIVE In obese women, 1) to assess whether lower gestational weight gain (GWG) during pregnancy in the lifestyle intervention group of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) resulted in differences in offspring anthropometrics and body composition, and 2) to compare offspring outcomes to a reference group of children born to women with a normal Body Mass Index (BMI). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METH...

BACKGROUND The six-minute walk test (6MWT) is a simple, low tech, safe and well established, self-paced assessment tool to quantify functional exercise capacity in adults. The definition of normal 6MWT in children is especially demanding since not only parameters like height, weight and ethnical background influence the measurement, but may be as crucial as age and the developmental stage. The ...

OBJECTIVES To (1) evaluate the relationships between several indices of obesity with obesity-related risk factors; (2) compare the accuracy of body composition estimates derived from anthropometry and bioimpedance analysis (BIA) to estimates of body composition assessed by doubly-labeled water (DLW); and (3) establish equations for estimating fat mass (FM), fat-free mass (FFM), and percent body...