Measurement of short-term growth with a new knee height measuring device

American Journal of Human Biology : the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council
Christine E CronkH Donald Widdoes

Abstract

Information on short-term growth (growth over periods of 1 month or less) has potential use in the clinic for treatment of children with growth disorders, and knowledge about patterns of short-term growth may also contribute to an understanding of growth control mechanisms. Limitations of measurement reliability for most measurements of linear growth have generally confined us to evaluation of growth over periods 3 month or longer. This report introduces the Knee Height Measuring Device (KHMD) The Knee Height Measuring Device is available from Intersciences Development Associates, 3508 Market St., Philadelphia, PA 19104 (215-662-0700), patent pending. , which can measure changes in size of the lower leg of approximately 0.5 mm and thus assist in evaluation of short-term growth. It is smaller, more portable, and less expensive than the Valk lower leg measuring device (knemometer) and uses a less subjectively biased measurement technique. Preliminary comparisons using a sample of 15 children measured twice at a 28-day interval of the validity and reliability of a prototype KHMD and the Valk knemometer. Yielded an intraobserver error of 0.295 for the KHMD and 0.206 for the knemometer. Agreement of the two instruments on the presen...Continue Reading

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Jan 1, 1996·American Journal of Human Biology : the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council·Christine E CronkTheresa O Scholl
Jan 1, 1991·American Journal of Human Biology : the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council·John H HimesAlfred Pheley
Jan 1, 1993·American Journal of Human Biology : the Official Journal of the Human Biology Council·Virginia A Stallings, Christine E Cronk
Jul 14, 2009·Annals of Human Biology·Babette Zemel
Jul 1, 1994·Archives of Disease in Childhood·J K Wales, A T Gibson
Jan 30, 2002·The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition·Babette S ZemelVirginia A Stallings
Sep 30, 2003·Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism : JPEM·M Hermanussen
Apr 1, 1994·The Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology·K F Michaelsen

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