Leg length, body proportion, and health: a review with a note on beauty

Decomposing stature into its major components is proving to be a useful strategy to assess the antecedents of disease, morbidity and death in adulthood. Human leg length (femur + tibia), sitting height (trunk length + head length) and their proportions, for example, (leg length/stature), or the sitt...

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Main Authors: Barry Bogin, Maria Ines Varela Silva
Format: Default Article
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/14468
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