Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1960; Volume 23, Number 4-5, Year 1960, Pages 613-634: A Study of Mycobacteria Isolated from Cervical Lymph Glands of African Patients in Kenya

By Ladislav Sula

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Title:	Bulletin of the World Health Organization : 1960; Volume 23, Number 4-5, Year 1960, Pages 613-634: A Study of Mycobacteria Isolated from Cervical Lymph Glands of African Patients in Kenya
Author:	Ladislav Sula
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
Collections:	Medical Library Collection, World Health Collection
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Publisher:	World Health Organization


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Medical Reference Publication

Excerpt
1. Introduction Several meetings have in the past few years suggested various types of norms for the description and assessment of obesity (1-4). However, it has been suggested that it would be useful to have a set of simple recommendations and norms for the classification of obesity emanating from WHO, so as to be able to describe populations anthropometrically with greater precision than has been done to date. In particular, it would be useful to have recommendations for more standardized presentations to allow intercountry and intracountry comparison. Until now, very few international comparisons have been possible, mainly because of the way the data has been analysed and presented (see Annex 1). The intention of this meeting was therefore to address this problem and to produce recommended methods and standards for the measurement of populations, and for the analysis and presentation of data. It was realized that measuring children posed several problems, which probably warrant a specific meeting. This aspect was therefore not discussed at the present meeting, which dealt only with the measurement of adult populations.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS 1 . Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2 . What do we want to describe? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3 . Recommendations for data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Heightllength HWeeiigghhtt lle.ng.th. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2 Uaist circumference . . . . . . .2 Hip circumference . . . . . . . .2 Subscapular skinfold measurement Upper thigh circumference . . . .3 Triceps skinfold measurement . . Upper mid-arm circumference . . . Biceps skinfold measurement . . . Supra-iliac skinfold measurement Wrist and knee breadth . . . . . Abdominal and thigh skinfold . . 4 . Analysis of measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Non-response . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bodymassindex . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Classification of obesity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Distribution of the BMI in a population . . . . . . . . . 5 Waistlhip ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Waistithigh ratio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Classifications not recommended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Selection of age ranges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Anthropology and physiology in ongoing obesity research . . . 7 Risk assessment in prospective (longitudinal) studies . . . . 7 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Annex 1 . Examples of inconsistencies in criteria used for defining obesity and overweight in selected national. regional and community surveys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Annex 2 . Waistlhip ratio and health hazards . pathogenetic aspects . . 16 Annex 3 . Measuring skinfolds and circumferences . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Annex 4 . Epidemiological background . : . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Annex 5 . List of participants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21