Anthropological Review: Ostatnio dodane
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Cardiometabolic risk assessment in Eastern Slovak young adults using anthropometric indicators
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-27)Introduction: Selected anthropometric indicators, such as anthropometric measurements, indices, or ratios could be reliable predictors of future cardiometabolic risk in primary prevention, especially in young adults.Aim: ... -
Relationship between body sway and body build in healthy adult men and women
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-06)Studies investigating the relationship between balance ability and body size, build and proportions tend to concentrate on body mass and height rather than breadth parameters or size of individual body segments. The purpose ... -
Morphological and genetic aspects of Marfan Syndrome as demonstrated by a case of death during pregnancy with the discovery of two de novo missense mutations in the FBN1 gene
; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Galassi, Francesco Maria
; (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-12-12)
Marfan Syndrome (MFS) is an autosomal dominant disease caused in most cases by mutations in the FNB1 gene, which encodes for fibrillin 1. MFS does not alway shows typical phenotypic signs. Indeed, the occurrence of sudden ... -
The diet of the human groups buried in a late- and post-Medieval rural parish cemetery in Libkovice (Czech Republic)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-29)Libkovice is a village in the northwestern Czech Republic that was demolished at the end of the last century due to the expansion of a nearby mine. The former church cemetery has been a subject to bioarchaeological excavation ... -
Spina bifida oculta in skeletal population from Dąbrówki (Poland, Podlaskie Province)
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-20)The aim of the study is to evaluate the frequency of spina bifida oculta (SBO) in the early modern population from Dąbrówki (Poland); 26 males, 19 females, 3 adults with unspecified sex, 2 subadult were taken into the ... -
Dyslipidemia in pre- and post-menopausal women: a study of peri-urban Paundra Kshatriya women
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-11-23)Dyslipidemia is an important risk factor of cardiovascular disease, whereas menopause is a decrease in ovarian follicular activity at the end of reproductive age of the women, which is significantly influenced by hormonal ... -
A new perspectives on breastfeeding practice reconstruction in bioarchaeology – an oxygen isotopes study in an animal model
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-10-10)Research using stable isotopes for the reconstruction of breastfeeding strategies are based on assumptions that have not yet been verified by experimental studies. Interpreting the results of isotope analysis is associated ... -
Factors affecting stunting among 3–12 years old girls of Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, India
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-10-06)Stunting is the impaired growth and development in children caused due to poor nutrition, recurrent infections and lack of psychosocial stimulus. Because stunting affects physical development and inhibits the child from ... -
Economic stress affects the human sex ratio: A retest of the Trivers–Willard hypothesis in Poland
; ; Żądzińska, Elżbieta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-10-06)
This paper contributes to the verification of the Trivers–Willard hypothesis (TWH). Based on the TWH, observed sex (male-to-female) ratio at birth in a population is presumed to decline when parents experience economic ... -
The assessment of the relationship between the traits of temporal muscle and the massiveness of the supraorbital region of the Homo sapiens crania including the influence of the neurocranial shape and size of the occlusal surface of the upper molars – preliminary study
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-09-26)The knowledge about the pattern of the relationship between the morphological variability of the supraorbital region of human skulls and the features of the temporal muscle is far from complete. The main aim of this study ... -
Associations between birth season and lumbar spine bone mineral density in perimenopausal Polish women
; ; ; ; Żądzińska, Elżbieta (Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-09-22)
In European populations, the birth season significantly correlates with many biological features. It is thus possible that the observed clinical effects of bone metabolism disorders are a partial consequence of bone mineral ... -
Linear Morphometric Analysis of Auricular Measurements of a Nigerian Igbo population
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-09-15)The human ear (auricle) is an important body component in biometric studies and forensic identification. The purpose of this study was to evaluate linear auricular morphometric measurements of a Nigerian Igbo population.300 ... -
Low 2D:4D is associated with delayed age at menarche among women of Sikkim, India
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-09-19)The index-finger and ring-finger ratio (2D:4D) is a potential biomarker that reflects prenatal hormonal exposure and thus has a long-term impact on reproductive health. The present study aims to determine the relationship ... -
Morpho-facial variations in physical features of two tribal populations of Kargil (Ladakh, India): A bio-anthropological investigation
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-08-22)Somatoscopy is a systematic and cumulative visual examination of the morphological features of an individual. Physical anthropologists have classified humans into certain specific groups on the basis of specific morphoscopical ... -
Where are the Roman women of Ovilava? A spatio-temporal approach to interpret the female deficit at the eastern Roman cemetery (Gräberfeld Ost) of Ovilava, Austria
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-07-19)In historic and prehistoric populations, the sex ratio can often only be determined based on bioarchaeological analyses of cemeteries. In this context, a so-called female deficit has been described, which clearly contrasts ... -
Association between smoking status and body composition parameters in a young adult population
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-07-11)The purpose of this study was to analyze the association between smoking status and body composition parameters in 19–30 years old slovak population (mean age: 22,38 ± 2,34 years). The sample consisted of 379 individuals, ... -
Birth Size of Neonates and Its Association with Seasonality
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-07-11)The aim of the study is to evaluate the relationship between the season of birth and the birth weight and length of Bulgarian newborns.The weight and length data of 6517 (6098 full-term and 419 preterm) live births in ... -
Assessment of dental caries among children and adults inhabiting Starorypin (11th–12th c.) compared to other Early Medieval populations from Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-07-04)Dental caries testing provides information about diet, hygiene and eating habits. This information can be useful in reconstructing the living conditions of historical populations. The aim of this study was to determine the ... -
Anthropometric characteristics of four groups of indigenous people of Wallacea in East Indonesia
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-07-17)The human body size varies significantly around the world, both between and within populations. Likewise, ethnic diversity has a significant effect on anthropometric data differences for the Naulu, Tana Ai, Bugis and ... -
Tooth size discrepancies in Kosovar adolescents with different malocclusion classes
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2023-06-29)The goal of this study was to evaluate tooth size discrepancies in Kosovar adolescents according to the Bolton’s analysis, and to determine the differences between gender and malocclusion classes.A sample of 400 Kosovar ...