Prediction of body mass in elite Caucasian athletes from anthropometric measurements

摘要

@@ Introduction Predicting body mass from skeletal frame size is important in disciplines including forensics, physical anthropology and archaeology, where partial skeletal remains can be used to reconstruct a complete person. Dimensions of athletes are of particular relevance as their physiques "more closely approximate the probable conditioning of earlier humans" (Ruff, 2000). Such estimates produce reasonable predictions of mass with few predictor variables (e.g., stature and bicrystal breadth), but inevitably fail to address the variation in skeletal proportion between individuals which would make estimates more accurate in less typical individuals. In living humans, unlimited skeletal measurements are possible, and the purpose of this study was to produce a prediction of total body mass based on multiple skeletal dimensions of a large sample of athletes and controls.