Anthropometric measurement error and the assessment of nutritional status.

PubWeight™: 3.90‹?› | Rank: Top 1%

🔗 View Article (PMID 10655963)

Published in Br J Nutr on September 01, 1999

Authors

S J Ulijaszek1, D A Kerr

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Biological Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK. stanley.ulijaszek@bioanth.ox.ac.uk

Articles citing this

(truncated to the top 100)

Linear growth increased in young children in an urban slum of Haiti: a randomized controlled trial of a lipid-based nutrient supplement. Am J Clin Nutr (2013) 2.21

Central overweight and obesity in British youth aged 11-16 years: cross sectional surveys of waist circumference. BMJ (2003) 2.21

Racial/ethnic standards for fetal growth: the NICHD Fetal Growth Studies. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2015) 1.79

A structural equation model of the developmental origins of blood pressure. Int J Epidemiol (2008) 1.79

Relation of body mass index and skinfold thicknesses to cardiovascular disease risk factors in children: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Clin Nutr (2009) 1.70

Is the body adiposity index (hip circumference/height(1.5)) more strongly related to skinfold thicknesses and risk factor levels than is BMI? The Bogalusa Heart Study. Br J Nutr (2012) 1.65

Components of metabolic syndrome and metachronous colorectal neoplasia. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev (2009) 1.52

Effect of antenatal multiple micronutrient supplementation on anthropometry and blood pressure in mid-childhood in Nepal: follow-up of a double-blind randomised controlled trial. Lancet Glob Health (2014) 1.47

Reduction of diabetes risk in routine clinical practice: are physical activity and nutrition interventions feasible and are the outcomes from reference trials replicable? A systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Public Health (2010) 1.46

Anogenital distance from birth to 2 years: a population study. Environ Health Perspect (2009) 1.44

The Effect of Deworming on Growth in One-Year-Old Children Living in a Soil-Transmitted Helminth-Endemic Area of Peru: A Randomized Controlled Trial. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2015) 1.44

A study on the reliability of sasang constitutional body trunk measurement. Evid Based Complement Alternat Med (2011) 1.32

The effect of improved rural sanitation on diarrhoea and helminth infection: design of a cluster-randomized trial in Orissa, India. Emerg Themes Epidemiol (2012) 1.23

Reliability and accuracy of anthropometry performed by community health workers among infants under 6 months in rural Kenya. Trop Med Int Health (2012) 1.22

Correlations among adiposity measures in school-aged children. BMC Pediatr (2013) 1.21

Reliability of routine clinical measurements of neonatal circumferences and research measurements of neonatal skinfold thicknesses: findings from the Born in Bradford study. Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol (2011) 1.21

Myocardial structure, function, and scar in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Circulation (2011) 1.20

Gender and locality differences in tobacco prevalence among adult Bangladeshis. Tob Control (2009) 1.17

Association of trimester-specific gestational weight gain with fetal growth, offspring obesity, and cardiometabolic traits in early childhood. Am J Obstet Gynecol (2014) 1.10

Maternal height and child growth patterns. J Pediatr (2013) 1.07

Prenatal exposure to the major DDT metabolite 1,1-dichloro-2,2-bis(p-chlorophenyl)ethylene (DDE) and growth in boys from Mexico. Environ Res (2010) 1.04

Small-quantity lipid-based nutrient supplements, regardless of their zinc content, increase growth and reduce the prevalence of stunting and wasting in young burkinabe children: a cluster-randomized trial. PLoS One (2015) 1.01

Micronutrient fortification to improve growth and health of maternally HIV-unexposed and exposed Zambian infants: a randomised controlled trial. PLoS One (2010) 1.01

Effect of household-based drinking water chlorination on diarrhoea among children under five in Orissa, India: a double-blind randomised placebo-controlled trial. PLoS Med (2013) 0.99

Reliability of anthropometric measures in a longitudinal cohort of patients initiating ART in West Africa. BMC Med Res Methodol (2010) 0.98

Effect of weekly vitamin D supplements on mortality, morbidity, and growth of low birthweight term infants in India up to age 6 months: randomised controlled trial. BMJ (2011) 0.97

Validity of child anthropometric measurements in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Pediatr Res (2012) 0.96

Simple four-variable screening tool for identification of patients with sleep-disordered breathing. Sleep (2009) 0.94

Clinical utility and reproducibility of visceral adipose tissue measurements derived from dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in White and African American adults. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2013) 0.93

Reliability of Health-Related Physical Fitness Tests among Colombian Children and Adolescents: The FUPRECOL Study. PLoS One (2015) 0.93

Reliability of measurements performed by community-drawn anthropometrists from rural Ethiopia. PLoS One (2012) 0.92

A comparison of the Slaughter skinfold-thickness equations and BMI in predicting body fatness and cardiovascular disease risk factor levels in children. Am J Clin Nutr (2013) 0.92

Impact of instrument error on the estimated prevalence of overweight and obesity in population-based surveys. BMC Public Health (2013) 0.90

Adiposity indices in the prediction of insulin resistance in prepubertal Colombian children. Public Health Nutr (2012) 0.90

Comparison between handgrip strength, subjective global assessment, anthropometry, and biochemical markers in assessing nutritional status of patients with Crohn's disease in clinical remission. Dig Dis Sci (2009) 0.89

Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the diaphyseal length of the long bones in the postnatal period. Int J Legal Med (2013) 0.89

Interrelationships between BMI, skinfold thicknesses, percent body fat, and cardiovascular disease risk factors among U.S. children and adolescents. BMC Pediatr (2015) 0.88

Pediatric adiposity stabilized in Switzerland between 1999 and 2012. Eur J Nutr (2014) 0.87

Ethnic differences in neonatal body composition in a multi-ethnic population and the impact of parental factors: a population-based cohort study. PLoS One (2013) 0.87

Assessment of under nutrition of Bangladeshi adults using anthropometry: can body mass index be replaced by mid-upper-arm-circumference? PLoS One (2015) 0.87

The abilities of body mass index and skinfold thicknesses to identify children with low or elevated levels of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry-determined body fatness. J Pediatr (2013) 0.86

Anthropometric measurement standardization in the US-affiliated pacific: Report from the Children's Healthy Living Program. Am J Hum Biol (2015) 0.86

Modeling physical growth using mixed effects models. Am J Phys Anthropol (2013) 0.86

Adolescent diet and metabolic syndrome in young women: results of the Dietary Intervention Study in Children (DISC) follow-up study. J Clin Endocrinol Metab (2011) 0.85

Use of anthropometry for the prediction of regional body tissue distribution in adults: benefits and limitations in clinical practice. Aging Dis (2013) 0.85

Harmonization process and reliability assessment of anthropometric measurements in the elderly EXERNET multi-centre study. PLoS One (2012) 0.84

Effects on anthropometry and appetite of vitamins and minerals given in lipid nutritional supplements for malnourished HIV-infected adults referred for antiretroviral therapy: results from the NUSTART randomized controlled trial. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr (2015) 0.83

Nutrition and exercise in the management of liver cirrhosis. World J Gastroenterol (2014) 0.83

Population-based survey of overweight and obesity and the associated factors in peri-urban and rural Eastern Uganda. BMC Public Health (2015) 0.83

Estimation of Sex From Index and Ring Finger Lengths in An Indigenous Population of Eastern India. J Clin Diagn Res (2015) 0.83

Metabolic syndrome, lifestyle risk factors, and distal colon adenoma: a retrospective cohort study. World J Gastroenterol (2011) 0.82

The identification of children with adverse risk factor levels by body mass index cutoffs from 2 classification systems: the Bogalusa Heart Study. Am J Clin Nutr (2010) 0.82

Anthropometric indices as measures of body fat assessed by DXA in relation to cardiovascular risk factors in children and adolescents: NHANES 1999-2004. Int J Body Compos Res (2015) 0.81

Validity of Stature-predicted Equations using Knee Height for Elderly and Mobility Impaired Persons in Koreans. Epidemiol Health (2009) 0.81

Military nutrition: maintaining health and rebuilding injured tissue. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2011) 0.81

Body composition analysis in older adults with dementia. Anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance analysis: a critical review. Eur J Clin Nutr (2014) 0.81

Ethnicity and the association between anthropometric indices of obesity and cardiovascular risk in women: a cross-sectional study. BMJ Open (2014) 0.81

Risk factors for mortality among malnourished HIV-infected adults eligible for antiretroviral therapy. BMC Infect Dis (2016) 0.80

Interrelationships between anthropometric variables and overweight in childhood and adolescence. Am J Hum Biol (2014) 0.80

Epidemiology of whole body, peripheral, and central adiposity in adolescents from a Brazilian state capital. Eur J Pediatr (2011) 0.80

Association of some socio-economic and socio-demographic variables with wasting among pre-school children of North Bengal, India. Ethiop J Health Sci (2015) 0.80

Reliability and practicality of measuring waist circumference to monitor cardiovascular risk among community mental health center patients. Community Ment Health J (2013) 0.80

Nutritional and metabolic status of HIV-positive patients with lipodystrophy during one year of follow-up. Clinics (Sao Paulo) (2011) 0.80

A new, effective and low-cost three-dimensional approach for the estimation of upper-limb volume. Sensors (Basel) (2015) 0.80

Sex estimation using the second cervical vertebra: a morphometric analysis in a documented Portuguese skeletal sample. Int J Legal Med (2014) 0.79

Mid-upper Arm Circumference Based Undernutrition among Bengalee Children of Chapra, West Bengal, India. Iran J Pediatr (2010) 0.79

Adiposity assessments: agreement between dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and anthropometric measures in U.S. children. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2014) 0.79

Development and validation of an ultra-performance liquid chromatography quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry method for rapid quantification of free amino acids in human urine. Amino Acids (2015) 0.79

Skinfolds and coronary heart disease risk factors are more strongly associated with BMI than with the body adiposity index. Obesity (Silver Spring) (2013) 0.79

Anthropometric analysis of palpebral fissure dimensions and its position in South Indian ethnic adults. Oman Med J (2013) 0.79

Nutrition assessment and management in children on peritoneal dialysis. Pediatr Nephrol (2008) 0.79

Prevalence of malnutrition among the mising children of northeast India: a comparison between four different sets of criteria. N Am J Med Sci (2012) 0.78

Surname-Inferred andean ancestry is associated with child stature and limb lengths at high altitude in Peru, but not at sea level. Am J Hum Biol (2015) 0.78

Sex estimation from the tarsal bones in a Portuguese sample: a machine learning approach. Int J Legal Med (2014) 0.77

Concordance of traditional osteometric and volume-rendered MSCT interlandmark cranial measurements. Int J Legal Med (2012) 0.77

Triglyceride Glucose-Body Mass Index Is a Simple and Clinically Useful Surrogate Marker for Insulin Resistance in Nondiabetic Individuals. PLoS One (2016) 0.77

A cluster randomised feasibility trial evaluating nutritional interventions in the treatment of malnutrition in care home adult residents. Trials (2015) 0.77

Adverse Left Ventricular Remodeling and Age Assessed with Cardiac MR Imaging: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. Radiology (2015) 0.77

Percentile Curves for Anthropometric Measures for Canadian Children and Youth. PLoS One (2015) 0.77

Dietary quality and 6-year anthropometric changes in a sample of French middle-aged overweight and obese adults. PLoS One (2014) 0.77

A study of correlations within the dimensions of lower limb parts for personal identification in a Sudanese population. ScientificWorldJournal (2014) 0.77

Agreement between routine and research measurement of infant height and weight. Arch Dis Child (2014) 0.77

Determination of body size measures and blood pressure levels among children. J Pediatr (Rio J) (2013) 0.76

Fasting blood sugar and serum triglyceride as the risk factors of colorectal adenoma in korean population receiving screening colonoscopy. Clin Nutr Res (2013) 0.76

Relationship between historical height loss and vertebral fractures in postmenopausal women. Clin Rheumatol (2009) 0.76

Use of upper-arm anthropometry as measure of body-composition and nutritional assessment in children and adolescents (6-20 years) of Assam, Northeast India. Ethiop J Health Sci (2014) 0.76

Waist-to-height ratio as a screening tool for obesity and cardiometabolic risk. Korean J Pediatr (2016) 0.76

Longitudinal measurements of total body water and body composition in healthy volunteers by online breath deuterium measurement and other near-subject methods. Int J Body Compos Res (2004) 0.75

Growth of HIV-exposed uninfected, compared with HIV-unexposed, Zambian children: a longitudinal analysis from infancy to school age. BMC Pediatr (2017) 0.75

Adiposity indicators and blood pressure in children: nothing beyond body mass index? J Hum Hypertens (2014) 0.75

Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study. J Vis Exp (2017) 0.75

The second to fourth digit ratio and age at first marriage in semi-nomadic people from Namibia. Arch Sex Behav (2011) 0.75

Arm span and ulnar length are reliable and accurate estimates of recumbent length and height in a multiethnic population of infants and children under 6 years of age. J Nutr (2014) 0.75

Precision of recumbent crown-heel length when using an infantometer. BMC Pediatr (2016) 0.75

Prevalence of Diabetes and Associated Factors in the Uyghur and Han Population in Xinjiang, China. Int J Environ Res Public Health (2015) 0.75

The Effect of Random Error on Diagnostic Accuracy Illustrated with the Anthropometric Diagnosis of Malnutrition. PLoS One (2016) 0.75

Smart Multi-Frequency Bioelectrical Impedance Spectrometer for BIA and BIVA Applications. IEEE Trans Biomed Circuits Syst (2016) 0.75

Secular trends for skinfolds differ from those for BMI and waist circumference among adults examined in NHANES from 1988-1994 through 2009-2010. Am J Clin Nutr (2016) 0.75

Design, Response Rates, and Population Characteristics of a Cross-Sectional Study in Zanzibar, Tanzania. JMIR Res Protoc (2016) 0.75

Management of acute malnutrition in infants aged under 6 months (MAMI): current issues and future directions in policy and research. Food Nutr Bull (2015) 0.75

Articles by these authors

Use of technology in children's dietary assessment. Eur J Clin Nutr (2009) 4.15

Odontogenic tumors: analysis of 706 cases. J Oral Surg (1978) 3.32

Optical coherence tomography helps differentiate neuromyelitis optica and MS optic neuropathies. Neurology (2009) 1.78

Idiopathic transverse myelitis: corticosteroids, plasma exchange, or cyclophosphamide. Neurology (2007) 1.74

Acute transverse myelitis in childhood: center-based analysis of 47 cases. Neurology (2007) 1.70

Aven, a novel inhibitor of caspase activation, binds Bcl-xL and Apaf-1. Mol Cell (2000) 1.62

Recurrent transverse myelitis associates with anti-Ro (SSA) autoantibodies. Neurology (2004) 1.55

A longitudinal study of the effect of sodium and calcium intakes on regional bone density in postmenopausal women. Am J Clin Nutr (1995) 1.50

Associations between retinal nerve fiber layer abnormalities and optic nerve examination. Neurology (2010) 1.49

Immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in the CNS of HIV-infected patients. Neurology (2006) 1.45

Morphological characteristics of Olympic sprint canoe and kayak paddlers. J Sci Med Sport (2003) 1.29

Behavioral and pathological outcomes in MOG 35-55 experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. J Neuroimmunol (2008) 1.26

Squamous odontogenic tumor. Report of six cases of a previously undescribed lesion. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol (1975) 1.24

The odontogenic adenomatoid tumor. A comprehensive study of twenty new cases. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol (1975) 1.21

Herpes simplex encephalitis and bilateral acute retinal necrosis syndrome after craniotomy. Am J Ophthalmol (1998) 1.19

Cooperative action of cellular proteins YB-1 and Pur alpha with the tumor antigen of the human JC polyomavirus determines their interaction with the viral lytic control element. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (1995) 1.11

Multiple sclerosis conference synopsis and discussion: cellular therapy for treatment of autoimmune diseases (October 2005). Mult Scler (2006) 1.09

Idiopathic gingivostomatitis. Cheilitis, glossitis, gingivitis syndrome; atypical gingivostomatitis, plasma-cell gingivitis, plasmacytosis of gingiva. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol (1971) 1.06

Fibrous lesions of the skin and mucous membranes which contain stellate and multinucleated cells. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol (1975) 0.96

Multiple idiopathic root resorption. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol (1970) 0.96

Effects of a 1-year randomized controlled trial of resistance training on lower limb bone and muscle structure and function in older men. Osteoporos Int (2010) 0.95

14-3-3 protein in the cerebrospinal fluid of patients with acute transverse myelitis. Lancet (2000) 0.94

Allergic gingivostomatitis (due to gum chewing). J Periodontol (1971) 0.93

Correlates of intestinal calcium absorption in women 10 years past the menopause. Calcif Tissue Int (1993) 0.89

Somatotype and size of elite female basketball players. J Sports Sci (2005) 0.89

Equipment set-up among Olympic sprint and slalom kayak paddlers. Sports Biomech (2005) 0.87

Dental management of patients irradiated for oral cancer. Cancer (1976) 0.86

Under-reporting of energy intake in elderly Australian women is associated with a higher body mass index. J Nutr Health Aging (2013) 0.86

Plasma ferritin concentration and physical work capacity in athletes. Int J Sport Nutr (1992) 0.85

Venous hypertensive myelopathy as a potential mimic of transverse myelitis. Spinal Cord (2004) 0.85

Ictus expectoratus: a sign of complex partial seizures usually of non-dominant temporal lobe origin. Seizure (1999) 0.83

Overweight adolescents eat what? And when? Analysis of consumption patterns to guide dietary message development for intervention. J Hum Nutr Diet (2014) 0.83

Relationship of the body mass index with skinfolds, girths, and bone breadths in Canadian men and women aged 20-70 years. Am J Phys Anthropol (1988) 0.83

Secular trend in birthweight among the Purari delta population, Papua New Guinea. Ann Hum Biol (2001) 0.82

Thalidomide for acute treatment of neurosarcoidosis. Spinal Cord (2007) 0.82

Evidence that the soluble factors secreted by activated immune cells suppress replication of human neurotropic JC virus DNA in glial cells. Virology (1996) 0.79

Physique characteristics of Pan American Games lightweight rowers. Int J Sports Med (1989) 0.79

Keratinization in odontogenic tumors. Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol (1975) 0.79

Importance of user interaction with automated dietary assessment methods. Eur J Clin Nutr (2012) 0.78

Absolute size and proportionality characteristics of World Championship female basketball players. J Sports Sci (1997) 0.78

Socioeconomic status, body size and physical activity of adults on Rarotonga, the Cook Islands. Ann Hum Biol (2001) 0.77

Increasing body size among adult cook islanders between 1966 and 1996. Ann Hum Biol (2001) 0.76

2006 rare neuroimmunological disorders symposium; Sheraton Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD, July 20-23, 2006. J Neuroimmunol (2007) 0.75

Technical note: anthropometric normative data for female international basketball players. Aust J Sci Med Sport (1997) 0.75

Thymic hyperplasia in a patient with recurrent transverse myelitis with clinical resolution after thymectomy. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry (2008) 0.75

Neurofibrosarcoma of the mandible. J Oral Surg (1977) 0.75

Weak and numb feet in a man with knobby hands. Arch Neurol (2000) 0.75

A flexible kilocurie cobalt-60 facility for multi-purpose irradiation applications. Int J Appl Radiat Isot (1975) 0.75

Bioavailability of three oral dosage forms of cisapride, a gastrointestinal stimulant agent. Clin Pharm (1987) 0.75

What strategies can women use to optimise bone health at this stage of life? Med J Aust (2000) 0.75

Iron status and diet in athletes. Med Sci Sports Exerc (1993) 0.75

The management of teeth related to the treatment of oral cancer. CA Cancer J Clin (1969) 0.75

Transverse myelitis after lumbar steroid injection in a patient with Behcet's disease. Spinal Cord (2005) 0.75

A family planning risk scoring system for health care providers. Obstet Gynecol (1984) 0.75

[Treatment and recommendations for oral cancer]. Rev Odontol Costa Rica (1971) 0.75

Grantmanship and the dental teacher. Dent Surv (1966) 0.75