The rapid increase of diabetes prevalence in the US population and across all westernized
world has been associated with environmental changes that promote obesity. Although …

The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. It
is this theme which underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest …

In the last fi~ w years, heterogeneity in the pattern of obesity and the metabolic abnormalities
associated with regional excess of adipose tissue have been increasingly recognized …

In medico-legal autopsies, establishing personal identity of the victims is often required.
Estimation of stature from extremities and their parts plays an important role in identifying the …

This study reevaluates the long‐standing observation that human morphology varies with
climate. Data on body mass, the body mass index [BMI; mass (kg)/stature (m) 2], the surface …

Recent data indicate that low-birthweight adults are at a higher risk than their high-
birthweight peers of developing ischaemic heart disease or a cluster of conditions known as …

Abdominal obesity, particularly excess intraperitoneal fat, is considered to play a major role
in causing insulin resistance and NIDDM. To determine if NIDDM patients accumulate …

Bergmann's rule, which proposes a heat‐balance explanation for the observed latitudinal
gradient of increasing animal body size with increasing latitude, has dominated the study of …

Identification of an individual is the mainstay in forensic investigations. The dimensions of
the foot have been used for the determination of sex, age, and stature of an individual. The …

The purpose of this naturalistic study was to compare values held by 36 white and 31 black
women related to body size, and to identily factors that influence these values and linkages …