Food & Nutrition

Arab Journal of Food & Nutrition
34. Study of Frame Size Patterns of Female Students at the University of Jordan
Using Certain Anthropometric Indicators (1998)
Salha Mohammad Abu-Nimeh\ University of Jordan
Supervisor: Dr. Khader A. El-Masri
This study was conducted on 276 Jordanian female students aged between 20 to
25 years, at the University of Jordan. The study aimed to classify their body frame size
into three main categories: small, medium and large based on the most widely used
determinant methods: Elbow breadth-stature, elbow breadth-age, Grant (height to wrist
circumference ratio), and HAT-model; as well as on three predicting methods: Elbow
breadth-age (EB), elbow breadth- height (EBH) and the BFS-model which was derived
from the observed data for the Jordanian group. The following measurements were
taken: weight, height, body circumferences of chest, waist, abdomen, hip, mid-upper
arm and wrist, body breadths of biacromial, bitrochanteric, elbow, ankle, wrist and
knee, skinfold thiknesses at biceps, triceps, subscapular, supra-illiac, and blood
pressure.
Correlation between body composition and other anthropometric indicators were
biostatistically analyzed with body frame size categories for each determinant method
to select the most appropriate and applicable method for frame size classification of
the Jordanian group. Levels of agreement among frame size determinant methods were
done.
Study results showed no relationship between frame size and blood pressure.
Body breadths were more suitable than body circumferences as frame size estimators,
particularly the ankle and wrist breadths because they had lowest correlation with body
fat (r=0.15; p