Screening for malnutrition in the elderly population: a tool for estimating height from knee height

Mathew, Anil C; Sampath, Saranya; Das, Darsana; Vijayakumar, M.; Ramakrishnan, Nagarajan; Ravishanka, S L

doi:10.21276/apjhs.2014.1.1s.16

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“…In contrast, the new population-specific formula for men (knee height, age and weight) that we devised yielded a mean overestimation of 0.0000 m, and this difference from actual height was not statistically significant. We also found that another Indian populationspecific equation derived by Mathew et al (2014) showed significance difference for stature estimation form our subjects, both in men as well as women. This formula resulted in mean deviation for men (-0.0002 m; -0.0673%) as well as women (-0.1524m; -10.5053%).…”

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confidence: 60%

“…In our present study we used fifteen formulae for predicted height among our subjects. We found that American (Chumlea et al 1985), White and Black (Chumlea and Guo 1992), Chinese (Li et al 2000), Korea (Hwang et al 2009), Chili (Lera 2005), Japan (Knous 2002) Italian (Donini 2000), Punjab, India (Mathew et al 2014) population based equation model showed statistically significance difference in estimation from our derived equations. In cases of Hispanic (Bermudez et al 1999), Puerto Rican (Bermudez et al 1999), Brazil (Lera 2005), Mexico City (Lera 2005) no significant difference was observed.…”

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confidence: 53%

“…This formula resulted in mean deviation for men (-0.0002 m; -0.0673%) as well as women (-0.1524m; -10.5053%). Although the equation given by Mathew et al (2014) using knee height and age was not as accurate as our new formulae, it outperformed all other population-based formulae we tested. Over the years, various authors' stature formulae have been used for anthropometric and nutritional assessment in world.…”

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confidence: 66%

“…In our present study, we attempted to derive stature-predicted equations using age, weight, knee height and sex among elderly Bengalees of Purba Medinipur, West Bengal. We then compared with other knee-length-based previously derived equations (Chumlea et al 1985;Chumlea and Guo 1992;Bermudez et al 1999;Donini 2000;Knous 2002;Lera 2005;Cereda et al 2010;Mathew et al 2014).…”

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Predictive equations for height estimation using knee height of older Bengalees of Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India

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For nutritional assessment work for older population, it is important to be able to estimate body height based on knee height. The present report describes three equations for height estimation among older Bengalees based on knee height and compares the results with knee height based formulae developed for several other populations. Anthropometric measurements were analyzed from 114 (62 men and 52 women) older subjects aged >= 55 years. The subjects were randomly selected from two blocks (Contai I and Ramnagar I), at coastal area of Purba Medinipur District in West Bengal, India. A population specific formula for height was created based on knee height of the subjects. These estimated formulae from the present study and fourteen other previously reported formulae were also applied to these older population and the mean estimation errors were statistically compared. Analysis indicated that our derived formulae gave accurate estimation of height among the subjects.

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confidence: 60%