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Published in final edited form as: Am J Phys Med Rehabil. 2011 Aug;90(8):658–666. doi: 10.1097/PHM.0b013e31821f6eb2

Table 5.

Height and BMI Estimates from the CFA Model

	Self-reported height	Recumbent length	Knee height	Armspan length
Variance explained by height common factor
Men	.83	.92	.85	.42
Women	.75	.92	.83	.38
Mean height
Men	177.13³ ^,² ⁴ ^*	173.41¹ ⁴ ^**	175.14¹ ⁴ ^**	180.73¹ ² ³ ^**
Women	160.52² ⁴ ^*	158.22¹ ^³ ⁴ ^*	161.27⁴ ^² ^*	163.89¹ ³ ^² ^*
Mean height difference between men vs. women	16.62	15.20	13.87	16.85
Mean BMI
Men	29.75² ⁴ ^**	30.98³ ^¹ ⁴ ^*	30.18² ^⁴ ^*	28.44¹ ² ³ ^^*
Women	31.20⁴ ^*	31.88³ ⁴ ^**	30.60² ^**	29.93¹ ² ^**

Self-reported height,

recumbent length,

knee height estimate,

⁴

armspan length

Adjusted p < .05,

^**

Adjusted p < .01