KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anthropometry, Fluoride, Mesoderm
29 Mar 2016
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5. 4 million canadians 65+ years of age. 11-15 million canadians 65+ years of age. Physiological age: a person"s age as estimated in terms of their: Function: expressed in terms of the chronological age of a normal individual showing the same degree of anatomical and physiological development. Fluoride treatment has made it less useful for predicting age in older people. Skeletal development: dark areas denote ossified portions and spaces between cartilage models, ossification (bone development, mesoderm cell cartilage bone. Sexual maturation: onset of menses: menarche a girl"s 1st menstruation. Pubic hair (both male and female: genitals (male, breasts (female, biological factors. Body fat obesity pandemic early maturation: environmental factors. Hair loss: male pattern hair loss (mphl) is androgen-dependent. absent in men castrated before puberty. Mphl has not been reported in complete androgen insensitivity. 80% of caucasian men show signs of mphl by 70 years: racial differences: asians, native americans, and africans have less extensive hair loss compared to caucasians.
