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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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Autores principales: Bogin, Barry, Varela-Silva, Maria Inês
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20617018
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7031047