title: Standards of arm muscle by stature for the assessment of nutritional status of children.
abstract: This study is based on a sample of 9,134 children ranging in age from 2 to 17 years from which the excessively lean and fat children by skinfold thickness were excluded. This sample was derived from the combined data sets of the first and second National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES I and II) of 1971-1974 and 1976-1980. Means and percentiles of upper arm muscle area were calculated for 3 cm increments in stature from 84 to 184 cm for boys and from 84 to 176 cm for girls. Based on means, Z-score units, and percentile ranges of upper arm muscle area by stature, five operational categories of nutritional status have been established. It is recommended that these standards and this classification system be used to supplement current standards of weight for age and weight for height in order to obtain a more complete assessment of body composition and nutritional status.
authors: Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48108.
authors: A R
authors: AR
authors: Frisancho
authors: D P
authors: DP
authors: Tracer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000886:Anthropometry; D001132:Arm / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D001823:Body Composition; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009132:Muscles / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D009752:Nutritional Status; D012015:Reference Standards; D014481:United States