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As regards obesity screening tests, it's a widly known fact that there are many problems in the existing notation of various body indices.<BR>Moreover, in regards to the determination of skin-fold thickness, measurments must be taken at two or three places, and this, plus the fact that a certain amount of expertise is necessary, represent a shortcoming.<BR>Using abdominal girth, which can be relatively easily measured, together with the chest girth measurment, the author examined a method for assessing obesity.<BR>Various body indices were computed from height, weight, chest measurement, abdominal girth, etc. and the correlation between their value and skin fold thickness and average skin fold thickness was determined.<BR>As a result of this, abdominal girth measurement and evaluation may be used in obesity screen tests in the following way.<BR>1. Method for measuring abdominal girth.<BR>[1] Have the patient assume normal posture.<BR>[2] Girth is measured (in centimeters) around the area mid way above the navel while the patient resting expiratory state with arms hanging limp and shoulders relaxed.<BR>2. Method for computing obesity index.<BR>obesity index=height (in cm) ×10/abdominal girth (in cm)<BR>The subject of the above research is extreamly limited in respect to age range. Therefore, the authors would like to examine further to see if this method is applicable to all age renges.
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We have tried to design a method to measure health degrees as one of ideas to grasp the activity of general population.<BR>We should like to suggest to measure relative local endurance and to observe its index or their mutual index ratio measurement of their endurance in each item.<BR>Exercise method was already reported in the report (1) .<BR>Loading time by standing arm test (SAT) is 1 minute, knee test (KT) is 30 seconds, sit up test (ST) is 30 seconds for general population.<BR>Extimate formulas on index are given as follows, <BR>SAT=120-2Y/ (P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB>) ×4×1.36×100=2206-37Y/P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB><BR>KT=120-2X/ (P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB>) ×4×1.22×100=2459-41X/P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB><BR>_??_ST<SUB>30</SUB>=120-3Z/ (P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB>) ×4×1.20×100=2500-63Z/P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB><BR> _??_ST<SUB>30</SUB>=120-3Z/ (P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB>) ×4×1.38×100=2174-63Z/P<SUB>1</SUB>+P<SUB>2</SUB><BR>X, Y and Z show frequency of impossible in each exercise.<BR>The above index itself can be compared with index in another person, but for the individual SAT/KT and ST/KT show that balance of moving and in case need SAT+ KT and SAT+KT+ST can be compared as the whole body endurance.<BR>After this, we are expected to investigate whether the health degree in each individual can be observated or not, by these methods.