Fatness biases the use of estimated leg length as an epidemiological marker for adults in the NHANES III sample | Zendy

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Fatness biases the use of estimated leg length as an epidemiological marker for adults in the NHANES III sample

Author(s) -

Barry Bogin,

Maria Inês VarelaSilva

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

international journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.406

H-Index - 208

eISSN - 1464-3685

pISSN - 0300-5771

DOI - 10.1093/ije/dym254

Subject(s) - medicine , overweight , demography , body mass index , population , circumference , anthropometry , epidemiology , mathematics , geometry , environmental health , sociology

We analyse the NHANES III sample to assess the suitability of measured stature and sitting height to estimate leg length (tibia + femur) and predict fatness. High rates of overweight in the United States population may lead to greater gluteo-femoral fat mass which will increase sitting height and artificially decrease estimates of both absolute and relative leg length.

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