CORRELATION OF HUMAN HEIGHT WITH FOOT LENGTH IN INDIAN INDIVIDUALS

Abstract

Introduction: The estimation of sex and stature is crucial in identifying the individual especially when the body has been destroyed, decomposed or certain parts of unknown victim remains either in mass disasters like plane crash, mass suicide, homicides, train and road accidents, tsunamis, forest fires, earth quakes or from those disposed off in gutters or waste dumps. The estimation of height is a very important parameter in anthropometric measurements, in identification in medico-legal cases and in establishment of racial differences. The hand length varies in different races and ethnic groups and is used to determine sex, stature and nutritional status of an individual Aims: To study the relationship of human height with hand length and to derive a mathematical module to predict the height from hand length. Materials and Methods: The This study has been done in Ramaiah Medical College in the year 2016 where hand length and height of 220 individuals aged between 18 and 25 years of age in and around Bangalore has been measured in centimeters. Descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation coefficient and Linear regression were employed for the Statistical analysis of the data