Assessment of the nutritional status of children aged 5–12 years using upper arm composition

References

• Basu D, Sun D, Banerjee I, Singh YM, Kalita JG, Rao VR. 2010. Cross-sectional reference values of upper arm anthropometry of the Khasi tribal adolescents of Meghalaya, India. Asia Pac J Clin Nutr. 19:283–288.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Begum G, Choudhury B. 1999. Age changes in some somatometric characters of the Assamese Muslims of Kamrup district, Assam. Ann Hum Biol. 26:203–217.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bolzan A, Guimarey L, Frisancho AR. 1999. Study of growth in rural school children from Buenos Aires, Argentina using upper arm muscle area by height and other anthropometric dimensions of body composition. Ann Hum Biol. 26:185–193.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chowdhury SD, Ghosh T. 2009. The upper arm muscle and fat area of Santal children: an evaluation of nutritional status. Acta Paediatr. 98:103–106.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Cicek B, Ozturk A, Mazicioglu MM, Elmali F, Turp N, Kurtoglu S. 2009. The risk analysis of arm fat area in Turkish children and adolescents. Ann Hum Biol. 36:28–37.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole TJ, Freeman JV, Preece MA. 1998. British 1990 growth reference centiles for weight, height, body mass index and head circumference fitted by maximum penalized likelihood. Stat Med. 17:407–429.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cole TJ, Green PJ. 1992. Smoothing reference centile curves: the LMS method and penalized likelihood. Stat Med. 11:1305–1319.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Das Chaudhuri AB, Basu S, Chakraborty S. 1993. Twinning rate in the Muslim population of West Bengal. Acta Genet Med Gemellol (Roma). 42:35–39.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Deurenberg P, Pieters JJ, Hautvast JG. 1990. The assessment of the body fat percentage by skinfold thickness measurements in childhood and young adolescence. Br J Nutr. 63:293–303.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frisancho AR. 1974. Triceps skin fold and upper arm muscle size norms for assessment of nutrition status. Am J Clin Nutr. 27:1052–1058.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frisancho AR. 1981. New norms of upper limb fat and muscle areas for assessment of nutritional status. Am J Clin Nutr. 34:2540–2545.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Frisancho AR. 1989. Anthropometric standard for the assessment of growth and nutrition status. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
   Google Scholar
• Frisancho AR, Tracer DP. 1987. Standards of arm muscle by stature for the assessment of nutritional status of children. Am J Phys Anthropol. 73:459–465.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Gültekin T, Özer BK, Katayama K, Akın G. 2006. Age-related patterns of upper arm muscle and fat area in Turkish children and assessment of nutritional status. Int J Anthropol. 21:231–239.
   Google Scholar
• Gurney M, Jelliffe DB, Neill J. 1972. Anthropometry in the differential diagnosis of protein-calorie malnutrition. J Trop Pediatr Environ Child Health. 18:1–2.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Heymsfield SB, McManus C, Smith J, Stevens V, Nixon DW. 1982. Anthropometric measurement of muscle mass: revised equations for calculating bone-free arm muscle area. Am J Clin Nutr. 36:680–690.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kim KB, French KE, Spurgeon JH. 1999. Somatic comparisons at four ages of South Korean females and females of other Asian groups. Am J Hum Biol. 11:735–744.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Manshande JP, Vuylsteke J, Vlietinck R, Eeckels R. 1985. Arm muscle and fat in the evaluation of nutritional status. A study of African pre-school children in three different environments. Eur J Pediatr. 144:32–36.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Measham AR, Chatterjee M. 2009. Wasting away: the crisis of malnutrition in India. Washington, DC: The World Bank.
   Google Scholar
• Mishra D, Singh HP. 2003. Kuppuswami's socio-economic status scale – A revision. Indian J Pediatr. 70:273–274.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Mondal N, Sen J. 2010. Prevalence of undernutrition among children (5–12 years) belonging to three communities residing in a similar habitat in North Bengal, India. Ann Hum Biol. 37:198–216.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Monir Z, Galal A, Erfan M, Ruby ME. 2008. Assessment of growth and nutritional status of Egyptian children and adolescents, using upper arm muscle area by height. Res J Med Med Sci. 3:60–66.
   Google Scholar
• Olivieri F, Semproli S, Pettener D, Toselli S. 2008. Growth and malnutrition of rural Zimbabwean children (6–17 years of age). Am J Phys Anthropol. 136:214–222.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ozturk A, Budak N, Cicek B, Mazicioglu MM, Bayram F, Kurtoglu S. 2009. Cross-sectional reference values for mid-upper arm circumference, triceps skinfold thickness and arm fat area of Turkish children and adolescents. Int J Food Sci Nutr. 60:267–281.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ryan AS, Roche AF, Kuczmarski RJ. 1996. Weight, stature, and body mass index data for Mexican Americans from the third national health and nutrition examination survey (NHANES III, 1988–1994). Am J Hum Biol. 11:673–686.
   Google Scholar
• Semproli S, Gualdi-Russo E. 2007. Childhood malnutrition and growth in a rural area of Western Kenya. Am J Phys Anthropol. 132:463–469.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sen J, Dey S, Mondal N. 2011. Conventional nutritional indices and Composite Index of Anthropometric Failure: which seems more appropriate for assessing under-nutrition among children? A cross-sectional study among school children of the Bengalee Muslim Population of North Bengal, India. Italian J Pub Health. 8:172–185.
   Google Scholar
• Touitou Y, Portaluppi F, Smolensky MH, Rensing L. 2004. Ethical principles and standards for the conduct of human and animal biological rhythm research. Chronobiol Int. 21:161–170.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ulijaszek SJ, Kerr DA. 1999. Anthropometric measurement error and the assessment of nutritional status. Br J Nutr. 82:165–177.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weiner JS, Lourie JA. 1981. Practical human biology. London: Academic Press.
   Google Scholar
• Wells JC. 2007. Sexual dimorphism of body composition. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab. 21:415–430.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• World Health Organization. 1983. Measuring change in nutritional status: guidelines for assessing the nutritional impact of supplementary feeding programmes for vulnerable groups. Geneva: World Health Organization.
   Google Scholar
• World Health Organization. 1995. The use of interpretation of Anthropometry – Report of WHO Expert committee. WHO Tech Rep Series 854. Geneva: World Health Organization.
   Google Scholar