Estimación de la talla a partir de la medida de la tibia en población Colombiana

Abstract

Enforced disappearance is a common phenomenon in Colombia, appearing daily human remains in mass graves, the state has the responsibility to identify those remains, the initial process of identification is required to determine gender, race, age and height. Our goal is to establish the correlation between the length of the tibia and the height of an individual in order to generate an equation to predict the size of an individual from his tibia skeletal remains. We evaluated 168 corpses who are medico-legal autopsy practice, aged between 18 and 50 years olds. It makes measuring the height of the subject and the length of the tibia after dissection, it is estimated the correlation between these two variables from the Pearson correlation and applies a linear regression model to generate an equation to predict the size of an individual from the length of the tibia using the statistical package STATA 8.0. Were obtained 168 tibia and height measurements, the average length of the height is 170 cm and tibia 38.42 cm, Pearson correlation coefficient is 0.88. By applying the linear regression model is obtained by the equation H = 66.42 + (2.72 x MLT), where height (H) cm is equal to 66.42 cm plus the product of 2.72 by the maximum length of tibia in cm (MLT). We generate an equation that predicts Colombian population height of an individual missing from the length of his tibia, thus contributing to the process of identification of missing in Colombia.