Nationwide Stature Estimation from Knee Height Measurements in Montenegrin Adolescents

摘要

Anthropometry is in various ways significant for the measurement of individual body parts, i.e. for the provision of key data, used to quantitatively determine morphological features and to assess the objective picture of human growth (1). Body height is the main anthropometric parameter for the estimation of individuals and is significant in many situations (2). In addition, it is necessary for the evaluation of child growth for the calculation of nutrition indices of children and adults (3), the prediction and standardization of variables such as lung capacity, muscle strength, the standardization of physical ability measures for the determination of a patient’s proper dose, etc. (4). Furthermore, it can be a good parameter for diagnosing persons with various anomalies and body height loss after doctor medicinal activity on the spine (5), as well as for predicting its loss in the case of the elderly (6).