A preliminary anthropometric study of height and sex determination using percutaneous humeral and tibial lengths

Armah, Christian; Abaidoo, Chrissie Stansie; Tetteh, Joshua; Diby, Thomas; Atuahene, Obed Ohene-Djan; Darko, Nancy Darkoa; Appiah, Atta Kusi

doi:10.1080/00450618.2016.1257065

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“…In our study, the bilateral difference of shoulder elbow length and the ulnar length was statistically insignificant (p > 0.05) of both sexes. These results are similar to past studies like Tormitsu et al [29] on the cadaver Japanese population and Armah et al [23] on undergraduate students in Ghana. In their studies, the difference between the right side and left side dimensions was statistically insignificant in both sexes.…”

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“…On the contrary, in the Ghananian population, Armah et al [23] found statistically significant correlation between the humeral length and height in males (right humeral length: R 0.55 and left humeral length: R 0.53) than females.…”

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“…The findings of the present study were in agreement with the previous studies. In the study of Amrah et al [23] on the undergraduate students, the stature, humeral length, and tibial length were larger in men than in women. In Ghananian population, Okai et al [30] revealed that the height, ulna length, and radial length were larger in men than in women.…”

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“…In another study, Navid et al [22] found the mean upper arm length 33.72 cm in male students and the mean upper arm length 30.12 cm in female students. Also, in a study carried out by Armah et al [23] on the undergraduate students in Ghana, they reported the mean right humeral length 35.70 cm in males and 32.77 cm in females, whereas the mean left humeral length 35.62 cm in males and 32.74 cm in females.…”

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“…Among these measurements, the stature estimation from long bones becomes imperative, while the direct height measurement is difficult, especially in debilitated, bedridden persons or in persons that may have vertebral column or limbrelated problems [21]. The measurement from long bones includes the upper arm length [22] or humeral length [23,24], tibial length [23,25], femoral length [26], fibula length [25,27], radial length [28][29][30][31] and ulnar length [26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] etc. Further, it has also been found that the lower extremities are strongly correlated with stature than upper extremities [36].…”

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Stature Estimation Using Ulnar Length and Shoulder Elbow Length in a Bangladeshi Population

Yeasmin

Hossain

Chowdhury

et al. 2020

SN Compr. Clin. Med.

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In forensic science, the stature estimation from different parts of the human body, particularly in personal identification, has gained considerable importance due to mass disasters like cyclones, earthquakes, mass accidents, terror attacks etc. Moreover, clinically stature estimation is also essential to assess physical growth, nutrition, and calculating body surface area. Therefore, the present study was intended to develop the standard formula to evaluate the stature of a person using ulnar length and shoulder elbow length in Bangladeshi adult population. The study was carried out on arbitrarily selected 300 healthy adult individuals (150 males and 150 females). At first, several statistical tests were applied to analyze the collected data. Then, sex-specific simple linear regression, stepwise regression, and multiple regression models were applied to develop the models for estimating the stature based on shoulder elbow length and ulnar length. The results showed the insignificant bilateral differences (p > 0.05) of the ulnar length and shoulder elbow length measurements in both sexes. The coefficients of correlation between stature and all measurements were significantly positive (p < 0.001). In this study, the ulnar length showed a better relationship with stature than shoulder elbow length in both sexes with a lower value SEE and higher values of R and R 2. Also, the multiple regression models gave better results than the simple and stepwise regression models due to higher R values and lower SEE. This study concludes that the ulnar length and the shoulder elbow length are significant parameters to estimate the stature in Bangladeshi adult's population.

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