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- Title
SELECTED ANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF ADULT WOMEN WITH THE TURNER'S SYNDROME.
- Authors
Milde, Katarzyna; Jez, Waclaw; Piechaczek, Henryk; Sklad, Maciej; Stupnicki, Romuald
- Abstract
The aim of the study was to determine the differences between women with the Turner's syndrome (TS) and healthy ones with respect to selected anthropometric variables, since such variables might be useful in an early detection of the syndrome. Selected anthropometric measurements (the body height, the sitting height, the upper extremity length and the mean chest circumference) were conducted in 93 TS-women and in 153 healthy women, all aged 18-25 years. Both groups differed in the body height by 22.1 cm (p<0.001), as well as in the allometric relations of individual variables to the body height: the mean chest girth and the upper extremity length were by about 12.5 and 6% greater (p< 0.001), respectively, in TS-women than in the healthy ones and they also differed in the sitting height/ body height ratio (0.520 and 0.541, respectively; p< 0.001). It was concluded that those measurements might prove useful in screening for the Turner's syndrome.
- Subjects
TURNER'S syndrome; ANTHROPOMETRY; ALLOMETRY; BODY size; HEALTH
- Publication
Papers on Anthropology, 2004, Vol 13, p154
- ISSN
1406-0140
- Publication type
Article