Abstract
Rationale: Height is an important parameter in assessment of nutritional status. Height is difficult to measure directly in critically ill patients requiring alternative methods for height estimation. One such method used in the Sri Lankan setting is the Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) equation (1) for height estimation using ulna length. But data regarding the accuracy of estimating height from ulna length for the Sri Lankan population hasn’t been studied well. The objective of the following study was to evaluate the accuracy of estimated height from ulna length in adults attending the Medical Nutrition clinic in Base Hospital Gampola as a pilot study in order to evaluate the equation for the Sri Lankan population in the future.
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