The aim of this course is to cover out the in depth knowledge on human growth process, body composition, body shape and size, different types of growth maturations, analysis of growth events, lung capacity, lung related other variables, pre-caution of growth failure, heart failure and its causes, finding risk factor of heart failure, different parametric and non-parametric growth model and higher dimensional growth model to understand and predict biological variables and adult stature.

After completing this course, the students should

understand all the features of human growth, and morphometric;

apply longitudinal data to fit human growth model in two or higher dimensions; and

understand the diseases and disorder of growth process;

Morphometry: Basic concepts, stature, weight, BMI, vital capacity, strength, sitting-height, chest circumference, Bouchard’s index. Livi’s weight-height index. Body Mass Index (BMI), Rohrer’s body build index, index of morphological equilibrium. Grid method and auxogram.  Manouverier’s indexes of body build. Cormic index. Pirguet’s index of body build, Demeny’s vital index, Speh’s index, Bruugsch’s chest-stature index, Pignet’s coefficient of robusticity,

Craniometry and Osteometry: Planes of orientation, cranial landmarks, craniometric indices and cranial capacity. Osteometry, index of the body, foramen and Baudoin’s sexual index vertebral index and Cunningham’s index. Measurement of sacrum and long bones. Elliptical Fourier Analysis.

Growth and Maturation: Basic concepts, stages in child growth, early childhood, mid-childhood, late childhood, adolescence, prenatal and postnatal growth,  Skeletal maturation, sexual maturation, age at menarche, body composition and nutritional status, sequence of adolescent events.

Lung Capacity: Introduction, Vital Capacity and its measurement, Tidal Volume, Inspiratory Vital Capacity, Expiratory Vital Capacity, Total Lung Capacity,  Forced Expiratory Vital Capacity,  Forced Expiratory Volume, and their relationship

Growth Failure: Introduction, synonyms and keywords, Symptoms, Causes, Exam and test, Treatment.

Heart Failure: Concept, Relation between Heart Rate and Age, Classes of Heart Failure, Warning sign of Heart Failure, Risk of Heart Failure, Symptom & Diagnosis, Prevention & Treatment, Advanced Heart Failure,

Growth Model: Biological variables and its secular trends, Algometry Model, the Gompertz and logistic growth models, Jenss model, Count model, double logistic model, PB models, ICP model, Reed models, SSC model, JPPS model, JPA-1 and JPA-2 models, modified ICP model, BTT model and Kernel’s (non-parametric) model, Wavelet model, polynomial model, growth variations due to genetics and nutrition. Twin growth, heritability of growth.

Higher Dimensional Growth Model: Extension of BTT model, Extension of other growth models.

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