Abstract
Stature estimates based on long bone measurements require a correction factor to compensate for stature decrease in older people. Such a correction should exclude the effect of any secular trend in stature and reflect the age at which stature begins to decrease, sex differences, and the increasing rate of change with age. Stature corrections which meet these requirements for ages 46 through 85, based upon two recent large-scale longitudinal anthropometric studies, are provided in tabular form.
Issue Section:
Technical Notes
References
1.
Trotter
, M.
and Gleser
, G.
, “The Effect of Ageing on Stature
,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology
0002-9483, Vol. 9
, No. 3
, 09
1951
, pp. 311
-324
.2.
Hertzog
, K. P.
, Garn
, S. M.
, and Hempy
, H. O.
, III, “Partitioning the Effects of Secular Trend and Ageing on Adult Stature
,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology
0002-9483, Vol. 31
, No. 1
, 07
1969
, pp. 111
-115
.3.
Borkan
, G. A.
, Hults
, D. E.
, and Glynn
, R. J.
, “Role of Longitudinal Change and Secular Trend in Age Differences in Male Body Dimensions
,” Human Biology
0018-7143, Vol. 55
, No. 3
, 09
1983
, pp. 629
-641
.4.
Galloway
, A.
, “Estimating Actual Height in the Older Individual
,” Journal of Forensic Sciences
0022-1198, Vol. 33
, No. 1
, 01
1988
, pp. 126
-136
.5.
Galloway
, A.
and Cox
, S. C.
, “Age-Adjusted Stature Estimation: A Test of Known Individuals
,” presented at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences
, Cincinnati
, 19–24 Feb. 1990.6.
Friedlaender
, J. S.
, Costa
, P. T.
, Jr., Bosse
, R.
, Ellis
, E.
, Rhoads
, J. G.
, and Stout
, H. W.
, “Longitudinal Physique Changes Among Healthy White Veterans at Boston
,” Human Biology
0018-7143, Vol. 49
, No. 4
, 12
1977
, pp. 541
-558
.7.
Giles
, E.
and Hutchinson
, D. L.
, “Stature- and Age-Related Bias in Self-Reported Stature
,” Journal of Forensic Sciences
0022-1198, Vol. 36
, No. 3
, 05
1991
, pp. 765
-780
.8.
Bell
, B.
, Rose
, C. L.
, and Damon
, A.
, “The Normative Aging Study: An Interdisciplinary and Longitudinal Study of Health and Aging
,” Aging and Human Development
, Vol. 3
, No. 1
, 02
1972
, pp. 5
-17
.9.
Lebowitz
, M. D.
, Knudson
, R. J.
, and Burrows
, B.
, “Tucson Epidemiologic Study of Obstructive Lung Diseases I: Methodology and Prevalence of Disease
,” American Journal of Epidemiology
0002-9262, Vol. 102
, No. 2
, 08
1975
, pp. 137
-152
.10.
Cline
, M. G.
, Meredith
, K. E.
, Boyer
, J. T.
, and Burrows
, B.
, “Decline of Height with Age in Adults in a General Population Sample: Estimating Maximum Height and Distinguishing Birth Cohort Effects from Actual Loss of Stature with Aging
,” Human Biology
0018-7143, Vol. 61
, No. 3
, 06
1989
, pp. 415
-425
.
This content is only available via PDF.
All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced or copied, in whole or in part, in any printed, mechanical, electronic, film, or other distribution and storage media, without the written consent of ASTM International.
You do not currently have access to this content.
