TY  - JOUR
A1  - Voigt, Andrea
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
T1  - Manual abilities of the elderly - handgrip strength, finger and thumb push strength and opening strength in age comparison
JF  - Journal of biological and clinical anthropology : Anthropologischer Anzeiger ; Mitteilungsorgan der Gesellschaft für Anthropologie
N2  - The purpose of this paper is to display the static strength capacities of healthy adults in different age categories. A total of 279 healthy German adults at the ages of 20 to 29 years, 50 to 59 years and 60 to 69 years generated their maximum static handgrip, index finger and thumb push strength, as well as their maximum opening strength on a smooth jar lid of 85 mm diameter and on a knurled bottle lid of 31 mm with their right hand. The results show larger male strength than female strength. Significant age-induced differences appear primarily in opening strengths between the age groups 20 to 29 and 50 to 59 years in male subjects and in female opening strengths between the age groups 20 to 29 and 60 to 69 years as well as between the age groups 50 to 59 and 60 to 69 years. Of greatest interest is that elderly men show the largest opening strengths.
KW  - elderly
KW  - torque
KW  - handgrip strength
KW  - opening strength
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1127/0003-5548/2011/0090
SN  - 0003-5548
VL  - 68
IS  - 2
SP  - 167
EP  - 173
PB  - Schweizerbart
CY  - Stuttgart
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheffler, Christiane
A1  - Hermanussen, Michael
T1  - Stunting does not impair physical fitness in Indonesian school children
JF  - Human biology and public health
N2  - Background: Physical fitness is decreased in malnourished children and adults. Poor appearance and muscular flaccidity are among the first signs of malnutrition. Malnutrition is often associated with stunting.

Objectives: We test the hypotheses that stunted children of low social strata are physically less fit than children of high social strata.

Sample: We investigated 354 school girls and 369 school boys aged 5.83 to 13.83 (mean 9.54) years from three different social strata in Kupang (West-Timor, Indonesia) in 2020.

Methods: We measured height, weight, and elbow breadth, calculated standard deviation (SDS) of height and weight according to CDC references, and the Frame index as an indicator of long-term physical fitness, and we tested physical fitness in standing long jump and hand grip strength.

Results: Children of low social strata are physically fittest. They jump longer distances, and they have higher values in the Frame index. No association exists between height SDS and physical fitness, neither in respect to standing long jump, nor to hand grip strength.

Conclusion: Stunting does not impair physical fitness in Indonesian school children. Our results support the concept that SEPE (social-economic-political-emotional) factors are involved in the regulation of human growth.
KW  - stunting
KW  - standing long jump
KW  - handgrip strength
KW  - SEPE
KW  - frame index
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.52905/hbph.v2.19
SN  - 2748-9957
IS  - 2
PB  - Universitätsverlag Potsdam
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -