**2.4 Anthropometric measurement**

Participants wore light clothing and after removing their shoes, stood on a Bioimpedance analyzer (BIA; BSD01, Pure Pleasure, a division of the Stingray Group, Cape Town, South Africa) and their weights were recorded to the nearest 0.1 kg. The study participants were made to stand upright, heels together, head in the horizontal plane, and height was measured with a stadiometer to the nearest 0.5 cm without shoes. BMI was estimated as weight/height squared (kg/m<sup>2</sup> ).
