Relation between mid-arm circumference and weight (1994).

• Main Author: Shaghaei Falah
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Iran University of Medical Sciences 1999-09-01
• Series: نشریه پرستاری ایران
• Subjects: mid-arm circumference; weight; anthropometry
• Online Access: http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1318-en.html

The present survey is a correlation study designed to determine extent and type of relation between mid-arm   circumference and weight in order to offer a scale for assumption of weight.   390 healthy, adults who are resident in Tehran and between the ages 18-65 were selected from visitors at three   hospital censers at random. Input accumulation was carried out by means of a questionnaire and checklist. The   checklist consisted of anthropometery information (height, weight, mid- arm circumference).   All of the measurements were obtained by means of on e person and identical instruments. The results of this   study are summarize d in 22 tables. T-test and analysis variance were used to determine the relation between   personal character, weight and mid.arm circumference. The results showed that occupation, sax and cigarette   smook ing influence the size of the left and right mid-arm circumference and weight. But there is no significant   difference between the left and right mid-arm circumference and weight among different athletic groups, different   incomes groups and left handed or right handed persons. Correlation coefficient was used to determine the relation   between the left and right mid-arm. Circumference and weight. There was a high positive relation between the size of both arms an d weigh t. The relation between left arm an d weight (r= 0.82) was a little more than the relation   between the right mid-arm circumference and weight (r==0.81).   The equation of regression was applied f or assumption of weight on the basis of size of the mid-arm   circumference.   The results indicate that with the increase of one centimeter of the size of the left or right mid-arm circumference   in men or women the weight increases 26 kg on the average.