Anthropometric Assessment Pro

Anthropometric Assessment Lite is a powerful screening tool for health risk assessment, especially with respect to regional tissue distribution, body composition and measured results therein. Anthropometric assessment helps to assess nutritional status, an important determinant of clinical outcome in many patients, including the number of those suffering from diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD). Body composition and anthropometric assessment, for example, provides the sports physician with useful information on the health state of the athlete.

Anthropometric measurements are a series of quantitative measurements of the muscle, bone, and adipose tissue used to assess the composition of the body. The core elements of anthropometry are height, weight, body mass index (BMI), body circumferences (waist, hip, and limbs), and skinfold thickness. These measurements are important because they represent diagnostic criteria for obesity, which significantly increases the risk for conditions such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and many more. There is further utility as a measure of nutritional status in children and pregnant women. Additionally, anthropometric measurements can be used as a baseline for physical fitness and to measure the progress of fitness.

These measurements can be used to determine the prevalence of over-nutrition or undernutrition and evaluate the need for nutritional support.

Obesity is a major modifiable risk factor of cardiovascular disease, stroke, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. It is one of the best clinical utilities of anthropometric data to define obesity. The best measurement to define obesity is to have just not BMI, but waist circumference, body fat composition, body surface area, body mass, lean mass, waist-to-hip ratio, and waist-to-height ratio and more. As Obesity is a well-established risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC), study of anthropometric measures like height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist and hip circumferences, waist-hip ratio (WHR), and body fat percentage (BFP) is important in assessment and prognosis of cancer.

Anthropometric measurements are a series of quantitative measurements of the muscle, bone, and adipose tissue used to assess the composition of the body. The core elements of anthropometry are height, weight, body mass index (BMI), body circumferences (waist, hip, and limbs), and skinfold thickness.

Anthropometric measurements are systematic measurements of the size, shape and composition of the human body. ... For example, body mass index, or BMI, is a measurement of a person's weight-to-height ratio, and waist-to-hip ratio is a measure of the waist circumference divided by the hip circumference.

THE FOUR COMMON ANTHROPOMETRICS

Common anthropometric measurements obtained in this population include height, weight, triceps skinfold, subscapular skinfold, arm circumference, abdominal circumference, calf circumference, knee height, and elbow breadth.

Actual stature, weight, and body measurements including skinfolds, girths, and breadths can be collected for the purposes of assessing growth, body fat distribution, and for provision of reference data.

GOING ONE STEP FURTHER:

Going one step further, Proactiff Digital Healthcare provides Standard Dimensions wrt Anthropometric Assessments. The sixteen standard anthropometric dimensions include stature, body weight, and linear breadths, depths, heights, and circumferences can be gathered by users to characterize the overall body size and shape.

The Anthropometric Assessment Lite app allows you to track anthropometric measures and key body measurements. These anthropometric measures include:

17-Site Skinfold Measures

Body Fat Percentage Calculators

US Navy Method Body Fat Calculator

Lean Body Mass

Total Body Water

Total Daily Energy Expenditure

Waist Circumference

WHR

WHtR

Ideal Body Weight

Percentage Body Fat

Etc.