Height, Weight and Arm Girth of College Girls in Delhi

Mean values, standard deviations and selected centiles of standardised measurements of height, weight and aim girth of 771 girls aged 17 to 20+ years studying in different colleges in Delhi and New Delhi are presented separately for different age groups. The mean and selected centiles of body weight at different heights are also penned. A positive secular trend towards higher mean values of height of the present generation of girls is reserved. Means, SDs and selected centiles of surface area and anthropometric indices am also presented. Weightfileight is independent of age and hence of great significance and practical importance in nutritional Wks. Ann girth shows high positive correlation with body weight and still higher correlation with height weight ratio. Ann girth, therefore may be considered as a simple and important nutrition index

Anthropometry · Body height · Body weight · Combinatorics · Correlation · Geometry · Girth (graph theory) · New delhi · Standard deviation · Statistics · Demography · Dermatoglyphics and Human Traits · Mathematics · Medicine · Internal Medicine