Assistant Professor, Centre for Community Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Scientist, Department of Biostatistics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2018 Apr-Jun;62(2):159-162. doi: 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_378_16.
Anthropometric changes take place with increasing age. Progressive loss of height makes it difficult to use height for calculation of body mass index in nutritional screening of elderly persons. There is a need to find other alternative methods which could be used as proxy measurements of height in them. To assess the relationship of height and arm span and among elderly persons. A community-based cross-sectional study was conducted among elderly persons in urban colony of Delhi. Height and arm span of persons aged 60 years and above (n = 711) were measured according to standard methods. Correlation between arm span and height was calculated. The mean arm span was seen to be more than the mean height in all age-groups and both sexes. There was a linear relationship between height and arm-span in all age-groups. There was a strong correlation between arm span and height in all age groups. Arm span could be used instead of height as an alternative in the conventional body mass index in elderly persons.
人体测量学的变化随着年龄的增长而发生。身高逐渐下降，使得在对老年人进行营养筛查时，难以使用身高来计算身体质量指数。因此，需要寻找其他替代方法，作为身高的替代测量值。
评估身高和臂展之间的关系，以及老年人之间的关系。在德里市的一个城市聚居区进行了一项基于社区的横断面研究。按照标准方法测量了 60 岁及以上老年人的身高和臂展(n=711)。计算了臂展和身高之间的相关性。
在所有年龄组和性别中，臂展的平均值均高于身高的平均值。在所有年龄组中，身高和臂展之间存在线性关系。在所有年龄组中，臂展与身高之间存在很强的相关性。在老年人中，臂展可以代替身高作为传统身体质量指数的替代指标。
