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Merits of physical meaurements: height, weight, chest girth and sitting height, and indices derived from these anthropometric measurements were examined in the age group 6 to 59 years, in order to find out practical index independent of age suitable for nutritional assessment in epidemioligical survey in community where the exact age of people are not known. The analysis was based on a survey of 2,867 Koreans of both sexes(1,665 males and 1,202 females) covering from primary school children to college students and industrial workers in area of Seoul. The following conciusions were drawn from the study. 1. The skin fold thickness at triceps and subscapular areas was well correlation with weight and all the nutritional indices(P<0.001),whereas only the height showed no correlation with the skin fold thickness. 2. It showed that Lior, Pirquet and Ro¨hier indices were least variant in order throughout the whole age groups. 3. Mean value of Lior indea for 6 tear-old children was indifferent in both sexes showing 2.34±0.17 for boys and 2.34±0.09 for girls. The variation due to age remained constant within a range of -3 to +5% in both sexes. 4. Mean value of Pirquet index for 6 years-old children was 9.12±0.44 for boys and 9.02± 0.35 for girls.The variation due to age ranged -2 to +6% in males and -4 to +7% in females. 5. Mean value of Ro¨hier index for 6 years-old children was 1.31±0.10 for boys and1.29± 0.14 for girls. The value decreased gradually with increasing age upto 14 years, and then continuously increased with age recovering the value as much as that of 6 years of age in both sexes at 34 years of age. The rate of variation dueto age was within ±10% of the va,ues for 6 years of age in both sexes. The indices in females predominated the values in males throughout all age groups after 9 years of age.
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