The standard target group to routinely include in an anthropometric assessment in refugee contexts is children aged 6-59 months. When justified, other age groups are sometimes also included. Children ...

The anthropometric measurement of mid-arm muscular area (MAMA) involves overestimation because of various assumptions, this overestimation being progressive with increasing adiposity. However, the ...

The aim of this methodological anthropometric study was to compare direct anthropometry and digital two-dimensional photogrammetry in 18 male and 27 female subjects, aged 24 to 65 years, from Potsdam, ...

Experts in the life-sciences industry are of the view that doing away with human studies for new drugs in India is unscientific and risky as patients here have different anthropometry. Clinical trials ...

Computerized craniofacial anthropometry can help identify patients with fetal alcohol syndrome Fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) is the most extreme expression of alcohol’s adverse effects on the fetus.

Introduction: Effective methods for assessing visceral fat are important to investigate the role of visceral fat for the increased health risks in obesity. Techniques for direct measurement of soft ...