Whether you're sizing up for a tailored shirt or chasing a new PB on the bench, chest size matters, but maybe not in the way you expect. Data from a large scale survey on military personnel has ...

Growth Changes in Physical Correlation.—Dr. Joseph Bergson, in Human Biology, vol. 1, No. 4, publishes the result of a study of the relation of height, weight, and chest measurement in the human male ...

Classification of infants into low birth weight (LBW, <2500 g) or very low birth weight (VLBW, <2000 g) categories is a crucial step in targeting interventions to high-risk infants. The National ...

To evaluate adequate human body mass is first of all a problem of health and welfare, overweight and obesity being taken as the important factors responsible for the increased risk of morbidity and ...

Recently in Beijing, China it was found that the chest circumference records are beating all the previous records. When probed in to the matter it was found that better nutrition was the main reason.

According to the World Health Organization, birth-weight of less than 2,500 g is considered low birth-weight since below this value birth-specific infant mortality begins to rise rapidly. In ...

Biomechanics Research Laboratory, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia Correspondence to: MsD E McGhee Biomechanics Research Laboratory, University of Wollongong, ...