Height-weight relationship in young healthy males of some hilly areas of India.
The relationships between height and weight in young healthy males (16-21 years) of hilly areas of Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal were established. It has been observed that the intercepts and slopes of the height-weight relationships of this group of subjects deviate to a high degree from those of Ehrenberg's law-like relationship. It is therefore concluded that Ehrenberg's law-like relationship of the form: log w = 0.8 h + 0.4 may not hold good for the data on height (h) in metres and weight (w) in kilograms for young healthy males of hilly areas of India. The results of the present study are in agreement with our earlier studies.
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Department of Biostatistics, Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences Delhi, India.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000531:Altitude; D001827:Body Height / Q000502:physiology*; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D012727:Sex Characteristics