Spanish 
Chinese 
Russian 
German 
French 
Japanese 
Portuguese 
Hindi Our Group organises 3000+ Global Conferenceseries Events every year across USA, Europe & Asia with support from 1000 more scientific Societies and Publishes 700+ Open Access Journals which contains over 50000 eminent personalities, reputed scientists as editorial board members.
Open Access Journals gaining more Readers and Citations
700 Journals and 15,000,000 Readers Each Journal is getting 25,000+ Readers
Google Scholar citation report
Citations : 5447
Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education peer review process verified at publons
Indexed In
- Index Copernicus
- Google Scholar
- Sherpa Romeo
- Genamics JournalSeek
- SafetyLit
- RefSeek
- Hamdard University
- EBSCO A-Z
- OCLC- WorldCat
- Publons
- Geneva Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- Euro Pub
- ICMJE
Useful Links
Recommended Journals
Related Subjects
Share This Page
The role of neck circumference measurement, could be a reliable way of evaluating patient’s health state
7th World Congress on Public Health, Nutrition & Epidemiology
Joanna Holowko, Maja Czerwinska Rogowska, Dominika Maciejewska, Anna Gudan, Honorata Mruk, Anna Gudan, Anna Wolska, Joanna Palma, Maciej Halasa and Ewa Stachowska
Pomeranian Medical University, Poland
Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Community Med Health Educ
Abstract
The epidemiological study is one of the most demanding studies. Furthermore, receiving honest data from patients is required to obtain solid statistics. However, there are some questions generally regarded as inhibiting and sensitive, for instance concerning body weight or waist circumference. Those questions could have a significant impact on utter statistics making them unreliable. There is an enormous need to create some useful and convenient anthropometric tools that would help to evaluate patient’s health status simultaneously avoiding sensitive questions and rendering all the data valid. The object of the study was to examine the usefulness of neck circumference in evaluating patient’s body weight and waist circumference. The study was conducted in Szczecin during two popular events: The finale of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity (10.01.2016) and run for women, Alkala (06.03.2016). It included 374 patients, 242 of whom were women. Every participant was measured using flexible measuring tape in order to obtain neck and waist circumference and also the body mass was weighed. Additionally, the short survey research, concerning height, educational background and place of residence was conducted. Statistical analysis showed a very strong correlation of neck circumference and both body weight (p<0.01, RHO=0.7) and waist circumference (p<0.01, RHO=0.76). It seems that neck circumference is a solid indicator that can help to evaluate both body weight and waist circumference avoiding sensitive questions. Thus, neck circumference may be helpful in collecting a representative group of people during population study.Biography
Joanna Hołowko is currently pursuing his PhD degree at Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland. She is working as a Dietician in Rehabilitation Hospital of Saint Charles Borromeo in Szczecin. She has published seven papers in reputed journals and has taken an active part in many national and foreign conferences on nutrition.
E-mail: holowkojoanna@gmail.com
