Anthropometric Standardization Reference Manual

✍ Scribed by Timothy G. Lohman (editor), Alex F. Roche (editor), Reynaldo Martorell (editor)

• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 184
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edition of "Anthropometric Standardisation Reference Manual" contains 45 anthropometric measurement procedures, and also addresses special issues such as reliability and accuracy and details various applications. It can be used as a supplemental text for courses in fitness assessment and exercise prescription, kinanthropometry, body composition, nutrition, and exercise physiology. The text is also suitable as a reference for exercise scientists.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Airlie Conference Committee Members
Part I: Measurement Descriptions and Techniques
1. Stature, Recumbent Length, and Weight • Claire C. Gordon, William Cameron Chumlea, and Alex F. Roche
2. Segment Lengths • Alan D. Martin, J.E. Lindsay Carter, Keith C. Hendy, and Robert M. Malina
3. Body Breadth Equipment and Measurement Techniques • Jack H. Wilmore, Roberto A. Frisancho, Claire C. Gordon, John H. Himes, Alan D. Martin, Reynaldo Martorell, and Vernon D. Seefeldt
4. Circumferences • C. Wayne Callaway, William Cameron Chumlea, Claude Bouchard, John H. Himes, Timothy G. Lohman, Alan D. Martin, Carol D. Mitchell, William H. Mueller, Alex F. Roche, and Vernon D. Seefeldt
5. Skinfold Thicknesses and Measurement Technique • Gail G. Harrison, Elsworth R. Buskirk, J.E. Lindsay Carter, Francis E. Johnston, Timothy G. Lohman, Michael L. Pollock, Alex F. Roche, and Jack Wilmore
References for Part I
Part II: Special Issues
6. Reliability and Accuracy of Measurement • William H. Mueller and Reynaldo Martorell
7. Which Side to Measure: Right or Left? • Reynaldo Martorell, Fernando Mendoza, William H. Mueller, and Ivan G. Pawson
8. Methods of Nutritional Anthropometric Assessment for Special Groups • William Cameron Chumlea
Part III: Applications
9. Physical Anthropology • Robert M. Malina
10. Human Variation in Anthropometric Dimensions • Claude Bouchard
11. Population Surveys • Francis E. Johnston and Reynaldo Martorell
12. Infants, Children, and Youth • Vernon D. Seefeldt and Gail G. Harrison
13. Assessment of the Nutritional Status of Healthy and Handicapped Adults • William Cameron Chumlea and Alex F. Roche
14. Estimating Frame Size • John H. Himes and Roberto A. Frisancho
15. Anthropometry and Body Composition • Timothy G. Lohman
16. Anthropometric Measurements in the Obese • George A. Bray and David S. Gray
17. Anthropometric Measurements in Acute and Chronic Illness • Steven B. Heymsfield
18. Topography of Body Fat: Relationship to Risk of Cardiovascular and Other Diseases • Theodore B. Van Itallie
19. Cancer • Marc S. Micozzi
20. Sports Medicine • Jack H. Wilmore
Appendix A: List of Equipment and Suppliers
Appendix B: Contributors’ Mailing Addresses
Author Index
Subject Index