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カレイ ニ トモナウ ケイタイガクテキ ヘンカ ノ イチコウサツ - ロウカ ノ シヒョウ ト カンガエラレル シンタイ ケイソク ノ ケントウ

A Study on the Morphological Changes with Aging - Discussion on the Anthropometric Measurements as Indices for Senility

Japanese (日本語)

神戸大学医療技術短期大学部紀要

3

39-44

神戸大学医療技術短期大学部

1987

2007-11-21

To clarify the characteristics of the morphological changes with aging and find out the appropriate indices for evaluating senility, several anthropometric meas¬urements such as arm span, distance from finger tip to floor and difference between con-striction and expansion of the chest wall were taken for 30 males and females from 72 to 87 years old. The values obtained from these measurements were statisticalsy compared with those of 30 normal young people. As a result the ratio of arm span/body height of the aged group was more than 100% while that of the young group was maintained around 100%. The distance from finger tip to floor and the difference between constriction and expansion of the chest wall at the level of the axilla, nipple and xiphoid process were also found to decrease with age. This result implies that these anthropometric measurements can be regarded as indices of senility. But to apply these clinically as indices for evaluating senility, it is indispensable to obtain not only anthropometric data but also motor functional and physiological ones.

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