Arm Span and Relation with Menarche
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 10
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Abstract:Body composition is influenced by nutritional status, genetic factors, but it is hard measure with accuracy. upper arm muscle area by height derived to assess nutritional status ,quatative measurement help to study nutritional intake by body composition even in clinical diagnosis, epidemiological study, UAMA(upper arm muscl is linearly relate with total body fat and found protein mal nutrition, upper arm fat and upper arm muscle area help them.Height and arm span is measured by international society of kinanthropometry. waist circumference and hip circumference are measured by measuring tape.Mean age at menarche is collected by retrospective method. To take measurements of individual’s standard anthropometric measurement are taken. Data analysis done Spss19 version, data is entered in Microsoft excels.Mean age at menarche is collected by retrospective method. To measure height anthropometric rod is used. Weight is measured by weighing machine. India has population groups having diverse life styles. Excellent opportunities for growth studies exists in India, as different population groups have contrasting nutrition, socio-economic status and a host of other conditions which influence growth and development of children. Because of the fast changing scenario in the income sources, food habits, health care facilities and type of social life people are living, it is necessary to have a baseline data on Punjabi bania girls of middle class families to find out correlation between various maturity indicators.Arm span of study group is t related to mean age at menarche it’s shown weak but positive correlation, it proves that longer arm span will decrease mean age at menarche. Height and arm span has positive but weak relation.conicity index has negative impact with arm span. Keywords:Upper arm area muscle area, conicity index,body composition, arm span,menarche.
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Dr. Kankana De
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