KAUSHIK BOSE
Prof. Kaushik Bose is a biological anthropologist from West Bengal, India. Born on 24.11.1962, Bose is a Professor since March, 2010, at the Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, West Bengal, India. Earlier he joined the same department as an Associate Professor in March, 2002. He has been the recipient of several scholarships, fellowships and medals. He is a Member/Fellow of several national and international professional bodies, most notable among them is the International Fellow of the Unit for the Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO), Oxford University, U.K. He was the recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship (1990) and obtained his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1996. He was at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Earlier he had obtained his Ph.D. degree from Panjab University, Chandigarh in 1992. He also worked as a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, King’s College London, during 1996-1997. He has published more than 370 research papers in peer reviewed national and international journals besides authoring a book and editing ten books. He has also been awarded several research project grants to undertake investigations on growth and nutritional status of pre-adults. He is the Editor of the Journal of Life Sciences besides being an Associate Editor of several journals. He acts as a Member of the Editorial Board of numerous national and international journals. Moreover, he acts as a reviewer for more than 50 national and international journals. His main areas of research are anthropometry, growth, health, nutrition, body composition and disease. He had co-chaired (with Prof. Elena Godina) a Russian-Indian Workshop on Children’s Growth and Health. He is particularly interested in ethnic variation in health and disease. He has been undertaking collaborative research with several institutes in India and abroad including the Institute of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw. He had also visited Unit of Anthropology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, as an Indian National Science Academy (INSA) – Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) Visiting Fellow He was awarded a D.Sc. degree by Vidyasagar University in April 2016. He (along with colleagues from USAID, Tufts University, FHI360 and other countries) has proposed a new global cut-off point of mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) of 24 cm to determine adult undernutrition. He is a Fellow of the West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology (WAST), India. In 2022 he was also elected a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (FRAI). Recently he acted as an expert consultant in a global project on “body composition and adiposity for children and adolescents in all their diversity” being undertaken by Texas A and M University, USA.
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Supervisors: PROF. V. BHALLA, PANJAB UNIVERSITY, CHANDIGARH, INDIA, PROF. C.G.N. MASCIE-TAYLOR, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, and UNITED KINGDOM
Phone: 8509924017
Address: Department of Anthropology, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore - 721 102, West Bengal, INDIA.
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and academic performance of many school-aged children. The cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the prevalence of undernutrition (Thinness) among growing children 249 (boys 109 and girls 140) aged 6-12 years in rural/tribal villages of Kota block, Bilaspur
Chhattisgarh, India. Children were shortlisted using school register for their age and anthropometric measurements like weight, height were recorded. Internationally accepted BMI classification for children has been adopted for assessing nutritional status.
Result shows that in studied area the strength of girl’s students surpassed boy students, that shows rural are more attentive in schools as compared to their male counterpart. The prevalence of thinness (CED-III, CED-II, CED-I) are found to be highest among the girls (16.4%) than boys (14.4%). The overall nutritional situation of children was poor with
high rates (serious) of thinness of 30.96 %. It is also clear that there is no effect of sex on thinness sample ( 2=1.980a; df= 4; Sig. = 0.739) among studied children. Thus, proactive involvement of parents, teachers, community, block, district and state level awareness, policies and strategies to be framed for short, medium and long term effect on children health at large.
Keywords: Health, Nutritional status, BMI, Malnourished
Background: The relationship between early age at menarche (AAM) and body height (HT), including its different segments
has not been extensively studied among non Western populations. Lengths of the lower (distal) part of the leg, such as knee HT
(KH) and tibial length (TbL), are considered to be sensitive indicators of living conditions during early growth and development.
Life history theory predicts that within a survival challenge the growth of vital parts of the body shall be prioritized over less
essential parts. The present study hypothesized that earlier age at menarche would be associated with shorter tibial length in
resource constrained settings.
Aim: To investigate the potential associations of menarcheal age with HT, KH, TbL, and other linear components of HT among
the Bengalee schoolgirls aged 10–13 years.
Methods: Among the 208 girls aged 10–13 years, menarcheal status and age at menarche were determined by status quo and
retrospective methods, respectively. Lower leg length was represented by two measures, KH and the supracutaneous measure
of TbL. The differences in HT, sitting HT (SH), total leg length (LL), thigh length (TL), KH, and TbL, between pre-menarcheal-
(
PMG) and post-menarcheal
girls (POMG), as well as between earlier menarcheal-(
EMG) and later menarcheal girls (LMG), were
assessed by student t-test
and analysis of covariance.
Results: The POMG were heavier, taller and had higher adiposity than their PMG peers, without showing any significant age-difference.
HT, knee HT, TbL, and TbL to HT ratio showed significant differences between the EMG and LMG. The EMG showed
lower values for all of those measures and the strongest difference was observed for TbL. However, there were no significant
differences in SH and SHR between EMG and LMG.
Conclusions: The study indicated a possible effect of early AAM on growth of distal body parts in a resource poor socioeconomic
condition. Further studies on the relationship between growth and AAM among different populations living in different
socio-ecological
conditions could be worth conducting.
Introduction: The health and nutritional status of tribal women are important factors that not only contribute to maintaining a healthy family and healthy children but also influence economic growth globally. Tribal women health is affected by various important factors such as poverty, early marriage, domestic violence, lack of nutrition, education, health care facilities, and insufficient knowledge or awareness. The present result aims to understand the health and nutritional status of tribal women of two blocks of Paschim Medinipur district of West Bengal. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in twelve villages (Duan, Baguan, Chak Sujal, Bankakul, Amra Gerya, Kismat Duan Roypukur, Srirampur, Sridharpur, Sirni, Keshrambha, Sahania and Nandakuria) under Debra and Dantan-II blocks of Paschim Medinipur district, West Bengal, India. Results: From the present study we found that mean values of anthropometric variables like WT, MUAC, BSF, TSF, SISF and SSSF were higher among the women in Debra block than those in Dantan-II and these values are statistically significant (p<0.001). The derived measurements of BMI, FM, FFM, FMI, and FFMI were higher among Debra block women than Dantan-II and and all these values are statistically significant (p<0.001; in the case of FFM, the value is p<0.01). Overall, undernutrition based on BMI of the study population was 31.2%. Among them, women of Dantan-II block were more undernourished (46.3%) than Debra block (18.5%) (ᵪ2 =33.85, df=2, p<0.001). Similar to BMI, the nutritional status of the study population based on MUAC showed that overall undernutrion was 55.4%, among them in Dantan-II block women were more undernourished (65.0%) than Debra women (47.3%) (ᵪ2 =8.54, df=1, p<0.01). Women in the Debra block were more obese (30.31%) than Dantan-II (10.6%) (ᵪ2= 15.30, df=1, p<0.001). Conclusions: From various studies, we found that the nutritional status of Scheduled Tribe women varies widely depending on factors such as rural housing, illiteracy and poor economic status. In the present study we found that the prevalence of undernutrition was higher among the Dantan-II block women than the Debra block. Almost one third of the study participants were undernourished, which is why a well-planned and coordinated effort is needed to address the scenario of malnutrition among the tribal population.
Keywords: Ho, BMI, Undernutrition, Women
in the human body according to the two-compartment model. This method is widely used because of the major cardiovascular and metabolic health issues related to fat distribution. Body composition assessments are regularly used to diagnose the nutritional health status of
an individual. Studies found various number of differences between the methods that are used to assess the body composition. The principal objective of the study is to found the difference between the estimation of body composition variables using body impedance analysis (BIA) and anthropometry. A total 201 adult male students aged between 18-28 years
were studied. The data collected were height, weight, waist circumference (WC), bicep skinfold, triceps skinfold, suprailliac skinfold, subscapular skinfold. An OMRON full body sensor body composition monitor and scale – HBF-510 was used to assess the percentage body fat (PBF) of the study participants. Significant mean difference found in fat mass (FM), fat free
mass (FFM) and PBF using anthropometry and BIA. Also, correlation of different variables to diagnose obesity using BIA and anthropometry between the methods was found in this study. The prevalence of obesity exhibits a higher rate using BMI than BIA measured FM. It is important to decide which method to use for more accuracy and feasibility in a population based study.