KINE 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: World Health Organization, Tanner Scale, Cardiac Output
29 Oct 2016
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Two types of aging: chronological and physiological age. Chronological age is a persons calendar age. Physiological age is how old the bogy appears or functions; can be based off of fitness level, cardiac output, muscle mass. In youth, they type and number of teeth can be predictive age. Teeth have been used to denote age due to the changes in mineralization in teeth over the lifespan. In infants and children, bone lengthens at the growth plates at the end of the bone, and when they close there is no further growth. Bones in the joints like wrist and ankles with develop with age and bone development at the wrist cane be used to predict a child"s age. In infants weight is essential for markers of growth. The most common table were created by the center for disease control and the.
