Body Height and Its Assessment By Using the Arm Span of Adolescents From the Montenegrin Municipalities of Berane and Pljevlja

The purpose of this research was to examine Montenegrin adolescents’ body height from the municipalities of Berane and Pljevlja, Montenegro. Also, the research examines an arm span as an alternative assessment for measuring the body height which varies from region to region in Montenegro. The research surveyed 275 adolescents (130 males and 145 females) from the previously mentioned towns in Montenegro. Anthropometric measurements were performed according to the protocol of the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK). The fi nal outcome of the research are mean values and standard deviations related to anthropometric measurements. The relationship between the body height and the arm span was determined by using simple correlation coeffi cients and their 95% confi dence interval. This was followed by a linear regression analysis which was utilized to determine to what extent the arm span can reliably predict the body height. The results show that adolescents from the north part of Montenegro are high, men have an average body height of 182.67±6.08 centimeters and the arm span of 183.02±6.71 centimeters, while the average height of the female population is 169.46±5.96 centimeters with a arm span of 168.56±7.30 centimeters. Compared to other studies, the results of this research have shown that this population is taller than most nations throughout Europe. Moreover, as it was expected, the arm span can predict reliably the body height when it comes to this population.