The relationship of height, weight and body mass index with curvature of spine kyphosis and lordosis in 12-15-year old male adolescents of Tehran

Authors : Alireza RABIEEZADEH, Fariborz HOVANLOO, Mehdi KHALEGHI, Hadi AKBARI

Pages : 42-46

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Publication Date : 2016-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Normal curvature of the spine might be changed as a result of its non-fixed feature. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between height, weight and body mass index insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(BMI); with curvature of the spine kyphosis and lordosis in 12-15year-old male adolescents of Tehran. This was a correlational study in which 97 accessible healthy boy students from Tehran region 2 insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(13.8 ± 0.8 years old); participate were selected. After measuring height insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(157.4 ± 8.6 cm);, weight insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(52.9 ± 11.9 kg); and calculating BMI insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(21.2 ± 3.9 kg/m 2 );, the spinal mouse was used to spinal assessment. To investigate the relationship between study variables Pearson correlation coefficient was used. The results of Pearson correlation coefficient showed there was no statistically significant relationship between study variables including height and kyphosis curvature insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r= -0.047, p= 0.651);, height and lordosis curvature insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r= -0.026, r= 0.800);, weight and kyphosis curvature insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r= 0.015, p= 0.883);, weight and lordosis curvature insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r= 0.052, p= 0.610);, body mass index and kyphosis curvature insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r= 0.059, p= 0.566);, and body mass index with lordosis curvature insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(r= 0.084, p= 0.413);. Therefore, although it seems that anomalies of the spine have high prevalence among the students, the results of this study showed that height, weight and body mass index could not be considered as an appropriate criterion to associate of kyphosis and lordosis angles in the studied population.
Keywords : Body Height, Body Weight, BMI, Spinal Curvatures, boy students

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