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Descriptor English: Mid-Upper Arm Circumference
Descriptor Spanish: Circunferencia del Brazo
Descriptor perímetro braquial
Scope note: Medida tomada alrededor del punto medio del brazo derecho, utilizada para la evaluación de la grasa y musculatura en niños, adolescentes, adultos, embarazadas y ancianos, con la finalidad de realizar un cribado nutricional o cuando no se dispone de equipo para medir el peso y la estatura.
Descriptor Portuguese: Circunferência Braquial
Descriptor French: Circonférence à Mibras
Tree number(s): SP6.270.233.111.267
Scope note: Measure around the midpoint of the right arm, used for evaluation of areas of fat and arm muscle in children, adolescents, adults, pregnant women and elderly, in order to make a nutritional screening or when equipment to measuring weigh and height are not available.
Allowable Qualifiers: DE drug effects
EH ethnology
GE genetics
IM immunology
PH physiology
RE radiation effects
Related: Body Height MeSH
Nutritional Status MeSH
DeCS ID: 16503
Unique ID: DDCS016503
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Mid-Upper Arm Circumference - Preferred
Concept UI FD00057803
Scope note Measure around the midpoint of the right arm, used for evaluation of areas of fat and arm muscle in children, adolescents, adults, pregnant women and elderly, in order to make a nutritional screening or when equipment to measuring weigh and height are not available.
Preferred term Mid-Upper Arm Circumference



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