Ogunranti J O
Department of Anatomy, College of Health Sciences, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
Trop Geogr Med. 1990 Jul;42(3):269-73.
The surface area (SA) has been recognised in clinical medicine to be the most scientific parameter in varying posology. Its derivation from height and weight is cumbersome and newer methods of computing SA have been described. 920 Nigerian adults and children were studied. Normal values for each age from the Dubois formula and their 3rd, 10th, 50th and 97th centiles using the Dubois formula for computing surface area are reported. The grand mean of the surface area in Nigerian adults (above the age of 21 years) was found to be 1.60 m2 suggesting a lower value when compared with similar studies in caucasian subjects. This finding is discussed in relation to the universal rule of SA near and away from the equator. A height formula for children aged 2 to 12 years is derived and suggested as an alternative to the older weight and the Dubois formulae.
在临床医学中，表面积（SA）已被公认为是不同剂量学中最科学的参数。根据身高和体重来推导表面积很麻烦，因此人们描述了计算表面积的新方法。对920名尼日利亚成年人及儿童进行了研究。报告了使用杜波依斯公式计算表面积时，各年龄段的正常值以及其第3、10、50和97百分位数。结果发现，尼日利亚成年人（21岁以上）的表面积总体平均值为1.60平方米，与白种人受试者的类似研究相比，该值较低。结合靠近和远离赤道地区的表面积通用规则对这一发现进行了讨论。推导并提出了一个适用于2至12岁儿童的身高公式，作为旧的体重公式和杜波依斯公式的替代方案。
