HLTH173 Lecture 11: Anthroppmetrics -HLTH 173
2 Aug 2016
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The study of human measurement is concerned with the physical sizes and shapes of humans. From childhood to adulthood, stature of a person changes quickly. After 30to 40 years old, starts to decresase. Other measurements such as weight and circumference may increase through to age 60 before declining. Different groups may have different average proportions: eg. us air forces studies found that japanese shorter in stature, but sitting height does not doffer from american population. Differences between those working in different occupational groups. Consider: basketball players, truck drivers, ballet dancers. Generational growth in stature of americans populations of about 1cm decade since 1920s, appears to be slowing down or stopped now newer trends such as obesity should also be considered. Transient diurnal body weight varies by up to 1kg per day due to changes in water content stature may be reduced by up to 5cm, due to gravitational compression on spinal disks chest circumference.
