UNLABELLED Interpretation of pulmonary function tests basically depends on prediction of normal values derived from equations using non-deformed body height. In many patients body height can not be accurately measured. The arm-span method has been used for estimating body height, but the normal relationship between body height and arm span is not exact and differs in various ethnic groups and e...

Anthropometry measurements, such as height and weight, have recently been used to predict poorer birth outcomes. However, the relationship between maternal height and birth outcomes remains unclear. We examined the effect of shorter maternal height on low birth weight (LBW) among 17,150 pairs of Japanese mothers and newborns. Data for this analysis were collected from newborns who were delivere...

For decades forecasters in the Queensland Regional Forecast Office of the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have been using winds that turn with height as a rainfall diagnostic, with good success in the subtropics and tropics. The diagnostic is based on the relationship between thermal advection (with its implied isentropic ascent or descent) and geostrophic winds that turn with height. This pap...

objectives this study aimed to examine the relationship between patients’ anthropometric characteristics and depth of spinal needle insertion to the subarachnoid cavity. patients and methods 385 patients with asa class i – ii, aged 18 - 65 years and undergoing elective surgery of the lower abdomen and extremities under spinal anesthesia, were selected for this cross-sectional study. the patient...

PURPOSE To assess the relationship between quantitative measures of disc height and signal intensity with the Pfirrmann disc degeneration scoring system and to test the inter-rater reliability of the quantitative measures. METHODS Participants were 76 people who had recently recovered from their last episode of acute low back pain and underwent MRI scan on a single 3T machine. At all 380 lumb...

To date, there has been no study done investigating the relationship between the components of height and blood pressure (BP) in rural South African children. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between height, sitting height (SH), leg length (LL), and SH-to-height ratio (SH/H) with BP in Ellisras rural children. All children underwent anthropometric and BP meas...