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Estimation of stature from various sternal lengths: An autopsy based study in South Indian population
Venkatesh J, Chaudhari VA, Sukumar S Abstract
The stature of deceased along with various sternal measurements was taken to obtain a linear regression equation to estimate the height of an individual in Southern Indian population. The cross-sectional study was conducted on 210 sternums obtained from medico-legal autopsies conducted at JIPMER, Pondicherry, India. A significant and positive correlation was observed between the stature of deceased (STAD) and all measurements of sternal lengths (P<0.05 for LM, LB, LMB) for both sexes. The stature with LMB showed highest correlation (R=0.490) for males and LB showed the highest correlation (R=0.472) in females. This study will be of more helpful to forensic experts and anthropologists when only the trunk of the body was recovered with no available long bones.
