Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults

Anthropologists recognized the tallness of nations in the Dinaric Alps long time ago. As the modern Serbians fall more into the Dinaric racial classification than any other does, the purpose of this study was to examine the body height in Serbian adults as well as the relationship between arm span a...

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Autores principales:	Popovic,Stevo, Bjelica,Dusko, Molnar,Slavko, Jaksic,Damjan, Akpinar,Selcuk
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía 2013
Materias:	Prediction Standing height Stature Armspan Serbia
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-950220130001000432014-09-09Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian AdultsPopovic,StevoBjelica,DuskoMolnar,SlavkoJaksic,DamjanAkpinar,Selcuk Prediction Standing height Stature Armspan Serbia Anthropologists recognized the tallness of nations in the Dinaric Alps long time ago. As the modern Serbians fall more into the Dinaric racial classification than any other does, the purpose of this study was to examine the body height in Serbian adults as well as the relationship between arm span as an alternative to estimating the body height, which vary in different ethnic and racial groups. The nature and scope of this study analyzes 394 students (318 men, aged 20.13±1.47 and 76 women, aged 19.59±1.46) from the University of Novi Sad to be subjects. The anthropometric measurements were taken according to the protocol of the ISAK. Means and standard deviations were obtained. A comparison of means of body heights and arm spans within each gender group and between genders were carried out using a t-test. The relationships between body height and arm span were determined using simple correlation coefficients and their 95% confidence interval. Then a linear regression analysis was performed to examine the extent to which the arm span can reliably predict body height. The results have shown that male Serbians are 181.96±6.74 cm tall and have an arm span of 184.78±8.41 cm, while female Serbians are 166.82±5.88 cm tall and have an arm span of 164.67±8.09 cm. Compared to other studies, the results of this study have shown that both genders make Serbian population one of the tallest nations on the earth. Moreover, the arm span reliably predicts body height in both genders. However, the estimation equations, which were obtained in Serbians, are substantially different alike in other populations, since arm span was close to body heights: in men 2.82±4.89 cm more than the body height and in women 2.15±4.68 cm less than the body height. This confirms the necessity for developing separate height models for each population.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSociedad Chilena de AnatomíaInternational Journal of Morphology v.31 n.1 20132013-03-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-95022013000100043en10.4067/S0717-95022013000100043
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spellingShingle	Prediction Standing height Stature Armspan Serbia Popovic,Stevo Bjelica,Dusko Molnar,Slavko Jaksic,Damjan Akpinar,Selcuk Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults
description	Anthropologists recognized the tallness of nations in the Dinaric Alps long time ago. As the modern Serbians fall more into the Dinaric racial classification than any other does, the purpose of this study was to examine the body height in Serbian adults as well as the relationship between arm span as an alternative to estimating the body height, which vary in different ethnic and racial groups. The nature and scope of this study analyzes 394 students (318 men, aged 20.13±1.47 and 76 women, aged 19.59±1.46) from the University of Novi Sad to be subjects. The anthropometric measurements were taken according to the protocol of the ISAK. Means and standard deviations were obtained. A comparison of means of body heights and arm spans within each gender group and between genders were carried out using a t-test. The relationships between body height and arm span were determined using simple correlation coefficients and their 95% confidence interval. Then a linear regression analysis was performed to examine the extent to which the arm span can reliably predict body height. The results have shown that male Serbians are 181.96±6.74 cm tall and have an arm span of 184.78±8.41 cm, while female Serbians are 166.82±5.88 cm tall and have an arm span of 164.67±8.09 cm. Compared to other studies, the results of this study have shown that both genders make Serbian population one of the tallest nations on the earth. Moreover, the arm span reliably predicts body height in both genders. However, the estimation equations, which were obtained in Serbians, are substantially different alike in other populations, since arm span was close to body heights: in men 2.82±4.89 cm more than the body height and in women 2.15±4.68 cm less than the body height. This confirms the necessity for developing separate height models for each population.
author	Popovic,Stevo Bjelica,Dusko Molnar,Slavko Jaksic,Damjan Akpinar,Selcuk
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title	Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults
title_short	Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults
title_full	Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults
title_fullStr	Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults
title_full_unstemmed	Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults
title_sort	body height and its estimation utilizing arm span measurements in serbian adults
publisher	Sociedad Chilena de Anatomía
publishDate	2013
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Body Height and Its Estimation Utilizing Arm Span Measurements in Serbian Adults

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