Anthropometric fractionation of body weight

¹ Division of Research, Lankenau Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and San Francisco Institute of Medical Sciences, Presbyterian Medical Center, San Francisco, California

Body weight (W) may be predicted with an accuracy of ±2% from the sum (C) of 11 anthropometric circumferences and stature (h). Additional measurements made on two small groups of men and women and on a large group of workmen serve to confirm the equivalence of C/K and (See PDF). The value of the constant (K) for both men and women is 300. If D represents C/K, then D² x h = W. Each single circumference (c) divided by a specific constant (k), which is a fraction of K, may be converted into a d value and into an equivalent body weight, i.e., d² x h = d(W). In effect, body weight can be fractionated into at least 11 components which provide quantitative intraindividual and interindividual comparison of body build.

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With the Technical Assistance of Dorothy Merritt Jones and E. Chadwick Squires