Correlation between Height and Selected Anthropometric Parameters of the Upper Limbs of the Efiks People in Cross River State, Nigeria
Journal Title: Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences - Year 2016, Vol 6, Issue 1
Abstract
Anthropologists and forensic scientists as well anatomists have devised means to identify individuals in cases where whole human body is not found during disaster and only segment and fragment of body parts remains. This study aims to find out the correlation between stature and the four parameters; arm, forearm, hand length and hand breadth. A total of 238 subjects (121 males and 117 females healthy indigenes) between the ages of 18–45 years were measured in Efiks population of Cross River state. The four parameters were significantly correlated (P < 0.05). The hand length (r = 0.609) and hand breadth (r = 0.583) were found the best correlated variable with stature, follow by forearm length (r = 0.543) while arm length (r = 0.206) showed the lowest. The result in this present study show that there was a positive correlation between height and three parameters thereby indicating that height could be predicted using hand length, hand breadth and forearm length among the Efiks people in Cross River state, Nigeria
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Lukpata Philip Ugbem
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