Anthropometry

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2012 Young Investigator Award winner: The distribution of body mass as a significant risk factor for lumbar spinal fusion postoperative infections. 
  • 5-HTTLPR polymorphism impacts human cingulate-amygdala interactions: a genetic susceptibility mechanism for depression. 
  • A comparison of height and weight velocity as a part of the composite endpoint in pediatric HIV. 
  • A field evaluation of monitor placement effects in VDT users. 
  • A kinematic and anthropometric study of the upper cervical spine and the occipital condyles. 
  • A new method for rapid mapping of the retinal thickness at the posterior pole. 
  • A pilot of a video game (DDR) to promote physical activity and decrease sedentary screen time. 
  • A reappraisal of the caloric requirements of men. 
  • A reassessment of the echocardiogram in mitral stenosis. 
  • Abdominal obesity and breast cancer risk. 
  • Adiposity and Incident Heart Failure and its Subtypes: MESA (Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis). 
  • Alternative methods for calculating percentage prediction error and their implications for predicting body mass in fossil taxa. 
  • An anthropometric survey of US pre-term and full-term neonates. 
  • Analysis of ankle deflection during a forward fall in snowboarding. 
  • Analysis of body-composition techniques and models for detecting change in soft tissue with strength training. 
  • Angular measurements in the evaluation of hallux valgus deformities: a report of the ad hoc committee of the American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society on angular measurements. 
  • Anthropometric assessment of 10-y changes in body composition in the elderly. 
  • Anthropometric differences between HIV-infected individuals prior to antiretroviral treatment and the general population from 1998-2007: the AIDS Clinical Trials Group Longitudinal Linked Randomized Trials (ALLRT) cohort and NHANES. 
  • Anthropometric measurements and dietary intakes of Cherokee Indian teenagers in North Carolina. 
  • Anthropometric measurements and epithelial ovarian cancer risk in African-American and White women. 
  • Anthropometric risk factors for prostate cancer. 
  • Anthropometric, parental, and psychosocial correlates of dietary intake of African-American girls. 
  • Archaic and modern human distal humeral morphology. 
  • Are 'competitive foods' sold at school making our children fat? 
  • Are obesity and anthropometry risk factors for diabetic retinopathy? The diabetes management project. 
  • Assessment of age-related changes in left ventricular structure and function by freehand three-dimensional echocardiography. 
  • Associations between anthropometric indices and outcomes of congenital heart operations in infants and young children: An analysis of data from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Database. 
  • Associations between anthropometry, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial. 
  • Biomechanical comparison of male and female distance runners. 
  • Body Composition Measurements from Birth through 5 Years: Challenges, Gaps, and Existing & Emerging Technologies-A National Institutes of Health workshop. 
  • Body composition in elderly men: effect of dietary modification during strength training. 
  • Body dimension differences in men with or without prostate cancer. 
  • Body dimensions of Japanese and American gymnasts. 
  • Body mass index and its effects on retinal vessel diameter in 6-year-old children. 
  • Calcified vascular plaque specimens: assessment with cardiac dual-energy multidetector CT in anthropomorphically moving heart phantom. 
  • Central corneal thickness in children: stability over time. 
  • Central corneal thickness: congenital cataracts and aphakia. 
  • Commentary: cardiovascular risk factors--the next epidemic in Uganda: findings from the population-based HIV/AIDS rural surveillance cohort. 
  • Cord Blood Metabolomics: Association With Newborn Anthropometrics and C-Peptide Across Ancestries. 
  • Corneal thickness measurements and visual function abnormalities in ocular hypertensive patients. 
  • Current techniques of nutritional assessment. 
  • Darwinius masillae is a strepsirrhine--a reply to Franzen et al. (2009). 
  • Defining ideal body weight. 
  • Describing the medial longitudinal arch using footprint indices and a clinical grading system. 
  • Determinants of hypertension in West Africa: contribution of anthropometric and dietary factors to urban-rural and socioeconomic gradients. 
  • Determining contrast medium dose and rate on basis of lean body weight: does this strategy improve patient-to-patient uniformity of hepatic enhancement during multi-detector row CT? 
  • Diet, physical activity, and body composition changes during the first year of treatment for childhood acute leukemia and lymphoma. 
  • Differences in visual function and optic nerve structure between healthy eyes of blacks and whites. 
  • Dimensions of the intercondylar notch of the knee. 
  • Distorting reality for children: body size proportions of Barbie and Ken dolls. 
  • Distribution and correlates of waist-to-hip ratio in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Diurnal variation in retinal thickening measurement by optical coherence tomography in center-involved diabetic macular edema. 
  • Early childhood undernutrition increases risk of hearing loss in young adulthood in rural Nepal. 
  • Effect of Axial Eye Length on Retinal Vessel Parameters in 6 to 12-Year-Old Malay Girls. 
  • Effect of a community-based weight management program on weight loss and cardiovascular disease risk factors. 
  • Effective dose determination using an anthropomorphic phantom and metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor technology for clinical adult body multidetector array computed tomography protocols. 
  • Effects of calcitriol and phosphorus therapy on the growth of patients with X-linked hypophosphatemia. 
  • Effects of examination technique modifications on pelvic organ prolapse quantification (POP-Q) results. 
  • Effects of pre-pregnancy body mass index and gestational weight gain on infant anthropometric outcomes. 
  • Elderly women accommodate to a low-protein diet with losses of body cell mass, muscle function, and immune response. 
  • Energy recovery in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Enhanced fitness: a randomized controlled trial of the effects of home-based physical activity counseling on glycemic control in older adults with prediabetes mellitus. 
  • Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Subclinical Infection and Coinfections and Impaired Child Growth in the MAL-ED Cohort Study. 
  • Estimate of breast cancer risk reduction with weight loss. 
  • Ethnic differences and determinants of diabetes and central obesity among South Asians of Pakistan. 
  • Ethnicity and the distance to the epidural space in parturients. 
  • Evaluation of three types of reference image data for external beam radiotherapy target localization using digital tomosynthesis (DTS). 
  • Extent and correlates of change in anthropometric and fitness outcomes among participants in a corporate team-based weight loss challenge in Singapore: lose to win 2009. 
  • Eyebrow and eyelid dimensions: an anthropometric analysis of African Americans and Caucasians. 
  • Facial features of infants exposed prenatally to cocaine. 
  • Feeding dysfunction is associated with poor growth and health status in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Fetal anthropometry at term: effect of menstrual age and relative fetal size. 
  • Fetal overgrowth. Diabetic versus nondiabetic. 
  • Food responsiveness, parental food control and anthropometric outcomes among young American Indian children: cross-sectional and prospective findings. 
  • Gestational weight gain and predicted changes in offspring anthropometrics between early infancy and 3 years. 
  • Growth patterns and gastrointestinal symptoms in pediatric patients after hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Growth velocity assessment in paediatric AIDS: smoothing, penalized quantile regression and the definition of growth failure. 
  • Hip extensor mechanics and the evolution of walking and climbing capabilities in humans, apes, and fossil hominins. 
  • Homo naledi, a new species of the genus Homo from the Dinaledi Chamber, South Africa. 
  • Infant BMI trajectories are associated with young adult body composition. 
  • Is access to neighborhood green space associated with BMI among Egyptians? A multilevel study of Cairo neighborhoods. 
  • Letter: Allometry and early hominids. 
  • Letter: Humerus of robust Australopithecus. 
  • Locomotion and body proportions of the Saint-Césaire 1 Châtelperronian Neandertal. 
  • Locomotor anatomy and biomechanics of the Dmanisi hominins. 
  • Longitudinal study of anthropometry in Fontan survivors: Pediatric Heart Network Fontan study. 
  • Lower molar shape and size in prosimian and platyrrhine primates. 
  • Maternal Employment and Infant BMI z Score in a US Birth Cohort. 
  • Maternal and child nutritional supplementation are inversely associated with fasting plasma glucose concentration in young Guatemalan adults. 
  • Maternal and childhood nutrition and later blood pressure levels in young Guatemalan adults. 
  • Maternal psychological distress, prenatal cortisol, and fetal weight. 
  • Measurement of Scapular Asymmetry and Assessment of Shoulder Dysfunction Using the Lateral Scapular Slide Test: A Reliability and Validity Study. 
  • Metabolic effects of repeated weight loss and regain in adolescent wrestlers 
  • Methodology and early findings of the Diabetes Management Project: a cohort study investigating the barriers to optimal diabetes care in diabetic patients with and without diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Morphometric analysis of the C57BL/6J mouse brain. 
  • Morphometric assessment of the central retinal artery and vein in the optic nerve head. 
  • Morphometric panel regression equations for predicting body mass in immature humans. 
  • Myopia, axial length, and OCT characteristics of the macula in Singaporean children. 
  • New craniodental material of Pronothodectes gaoi Fox (Mammalia, "Plesiadapiformes") and relationships among members of Plesiadapidae. 
  • Noninvasive mapping of the normal retinal thickness at the posterior pole. 
  • Normal fetal pelvis: important factors for morphometric characterization with US. 
  • Nutrition assessment of the critically ill adult. 
  • Nutritional evaluation of Huntington disease patients. 
  • Obesity and body fat distribution and breast cancer prognosis. 
  • Obesity and dyslipidemia in behaviorally HIV-infected young women: Adolescent Trials Network study 021. 
  • Obesity, body fat distribution, and sex hormones in breast cancer patients. 
  • Objective measurements for grading the primary unilateral cleft lip nasal deformity. 
  • Ocular parameters of biological ageing in HIV-infected individuals in South Africa: relationship with chronological age and systemic biomarkers of ageing. 
  • Ontogenetic changes in limb postures and their impact on effective limb length in baboons (Papio cynocephalus) 
  • Ophthalmic phenotypes and the representativeness of twin data for the general population. 
  • Optimization of tube current in coronary multidetector computed tomography angiography: assessment of a standardized method to individualize current selection based on body habitus. 
  • Organ-specific radiation dose rates and effective dose rates during percutaneous nephrolithotomy. 
  • Pediatric head contours and inertial properties for ATD design. 
  • Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in women compared with men. 
  • Plasma Tryptophan and the Kynurenine-Tryptophan Ratio are Associated with the Acquisition of Statural Growth Deficits and Oral Vaccine Underperformance in Populations with Environmental Enteropathy. 
  • Plasma proteins as indices of response to nutritional therapy in cancer patients. 
  • Plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in the first half of pregnancy, uterine and umbilical artery blood flow, and foetal growth: a longitudinal Doppler ultrasound study. 
  • Postnatal growth and size of the pulmonary acinus and secondary lobule in man. 
  • Predicting body mass of bonobos (Pan paniscus) with human-based morphometric equations. 
  • Prediction of the severity of obstructive sleep apnea by anthropometric features via support vector machine. 
  • Predictors of moderate to severe obstructive sleep apnea: identification of sex differences. 
  • Prevalence of nutrition-related problems among long-term survivors of allogeneic marrow transplantation. 
  • Prevalence of obesity and cardiovascular risk factors among manufacturing company employees in Kentucky. 
  • Prevalence of the metabolic syndrome in patients with schizophrenia: baseline results from the Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) schizophrenia trial and comparison with national estimates from NHANES III. 
  • Prices, infrastructure, household characteristics and child height. 
  • Prospective treatment of urea cycle disorders. 
  • Pulmonary embolism in pregnant patients: fetal radiation dose with helical CT. 
  • Quality control of the nutritional component of the Growth Failure in Children with Renal Diseases Study. 
  • Quality of health care, survival and health outcomes in Ghana. 
  • Quantitative CT: technique dependence of volume estimation on pulmonary nodules. 
  • Racial differences in gait mechanics associated with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Rapid measurement of total body water to facilitate clinical decision making in hospitalized elderly patients. 
  • Reassessing the association between facial structure and baseball performance: a comment on Tsujimura & Banissy (2013). 
  • Recommendations towards standards for quantitative MRI (qMRI) and outstanding needs. 
  • Reference data on in vitro anatomy and indentation response of tissue layers of musculoskeletal extremities. 
  • Reference data on thickness and mechanics of tissue layers and anthropometry of musculoskeletal extremities. 
  • Refractive error, axial dimensions, and primary open-angle glaucoma: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Regional Variation in Comorbid Prediabetes and Diabetes and Associated Factors among Hypertensive Individuals in Rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. 
  • Regional anthropometric measures and hepatic fibrosis in patients with nonalcoholic Fatty liver disease. 
  • Relationship of axial length and retinal vascular caliber in children. 
  • Relationship of nutritional status to health and societal participation in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Relative Contribution of Risk Factors for Early-Onset Myopia in Young Asian Children. 
  • Repeatability and Reproducibility of Quantification of Superficial Peri-papillary Capillaries by four Different Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Devices. 
  • Repeatability of Computerized Tomography-Based Anthropomorphic Measurements of Frailty in Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis Undergoing Lung Transplantation. 
  • Resting metabolic rate and body composition of achondroplastic dwarfs. 
  • Retinal vascular caliber and risk of retinopathy in young patients with type 1 diabetes. 
  • Role of the prehensile tail during ateline locomotion: experimental and osteological evidence. 
  • Role of weight history on functional limitations and disability in late adulthood: the ARIC study. 
  • Serum prealbumin and albumin concentrations do not reflect nutritional state in children with cerebral palsy. 
  • Sex differences in biomarkers associated with insulin resistance in obese adolescents: metabolomic profiling and principal components analysis. 
  • Simple method for determining the need for sternotomy/manubriotomy with the anterior approach to the cervicothoracic junction. 
  • Skeletal pathology in Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii in Kibale National Park, Uganda. 
  • Small-bodied humans from Palau, Micronesia. 
  • Sonographic measurement of renal length in children: does the position of the patient matter? 
  • Spinal movement and performance of a standing reach task in participants with and without Parkinson disease. 
  • Standardization of lower extremity quantitative lymphedema measurements and associated patient-reported outcomes in gynecologic cancers. 
  • Strength and anthropometric measures in identical and fraternal twins: no evidence of masculinization of females with male co-twins. 
  • Stress and body shape: stress-induced cortisol secretion is consistently greater among women with central fat. 
  • Terminology of pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • The Clinical Antipsychotic Trials Of Intervention Effectiveness (CATIE) Schizophrenia Trial: clinical comparison of subgroups with and without the metabolic syndrome. 
  • The acute hypoxic ventilatory response: testing the adaptive significance in human populations. 
  • The anatomy of Dolichocebus gaimanensis, a stem platyrrhine monkey from Argentina. 
  • The costal skeleton of Shanidar 3 and a reappraisal of Neandertal thoracic morphology. 
  • The desaturation response time of finger pulse oximeters during mild hypothermia. 
  • The effect of alpha1-adrenergic receptor antagonist tamsulosin (Flomax) on iris dilator smooth muscle anatomy. 
  • The independent effects of obesity and body fat distribution on blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County study. 
  • The metabolic syndrome and retinal microvascular signs in a Japanese population: the Funagata study. 
  • The role of strength in rising from a chair in the functionally impaired elderly. 
  • Throwing out the baby with the bathwater?: Comparing 2 approaches to implausible values of change in body size. 
  • Trajectories of leg strength and gait speed among sedentary older adults: longitudinal pattern of dose response. 
  • Upper-body fat distribution and endometrial cancer risk. 
  • Use of a three-dimensional, normative database of pediatric craniofacial morphology for modern anthropometric analysis. 
  • Variation in body fat distribution and breast cancer risk in the families of patients with breast cancer and control families. 
  • Volumetric quantification of lung nodules in CT with iterative reconstruction (ASiR and MBIR). 
  • Weight loss with self-help compared with a structured commercial program: a randomized trial. 
  • Weight-related concerns and behaviors among overweight and nonoverweight adolescents: implications for preventing weight-related disorders. 
  • What lies beneath the face of aggression? 
  • Widening of the subcarinal angle by pericardial effusion. 
  • [A study of suitable age for intraocular lens implantation in children according to ocular anatomy and development]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Woodward, Julie Ann, Professor of Ophthalmology, Dermatology
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine