Acta chirurgiae orthopaedicae
et traumatologiae Čechoslovaca

Acta Chir Orthop Traumatol Cech. 1997; 64(1):39-44

[Osteoarthropathies and conditions after alloplasties of the knee joints from the aspect of antropometric examinations.].

P Maresch, J Tkácik, F Makai, B Valko

I. ortopedická klinika FN, Bratislava.

The authors submit an analysis of the nutritional status assessed by anthropometric methods in a clinical group of 70 patients (mean age 58 years) where on account of the X-ray and the clinical finding of arthritis of the knees an alloplastic operation was performed. The results of the examination are compared with the analysis of the nutritional status of a group of 20 without X-ray and clinical signs of arthritis of the knee. The patients belonged to a similar age bracket. The authors used somatometric measurements of anthropometric parameters focused on assessment of the relative body weight. The results confirmed an age-dependent decline of height, known from epidemiological studies, the difference being statistically significant, p = 0.05 in the group of men in the Huporal group, as compared with men in the control group. A similar trend was found in median values of sitting height in both clinical groups and in the height of the trunk in men. Using linear regression, they revealed that the increase of Brock's index corresponded to the increase of pelvic circumference in women in different groups, while in men of all investigated groups this relationship is apparent in the abdominal circumference. Evaluation of the nutritional status by Broca's index revealed in the control group a 50 % incidence of clinical obesity, while in the clinical Huporal group it was 89 %, and in the clinical TEP group 87 % were in the group of overweight and obesity. Also tables of the nutritional status based on BMI confirm the marked predominance of overweight and obesity in patients of both clinical groups. Key words: osteoarthropathy of the lower extremities, alloplasty of the knee joints, anthropometric parameters, relative body weight.

Published: January 1, 1997  Show citation