Study of Correlation of Femur Length and Stature in Living Persons

Introduction: Natural height of a person is known as ‘stature' (1). Height estimation from skeletal remains is a useful tool in forensic medicine and biological anthropology (2). Through numbers of research studies across the world; many multiplication factors and equations have been designed to know the stature of skeletal remains. Most commonly the long bones are used for estimation of stature of an individual. Out of these, the lengths of lower limb bones give consistent and more accurate estimation of stature. Objective: The main objective of this study is to study the length of lower limb bones particularly femur to reconstruct stature by multiplication factors and regression equations. Material and Methods: The present study comprised of 100 students of different colleges of Dadra Nagar Haveli within the age range of 21 to 30 years. Subjects were measured for the length of femur, in accordance with the standard measurement techniques recommended. All observations were recorded in centimeters (cm). Results: The correlation coefficients obtained were (r) of 0.5 and 0.64 for male and female femur respectively. The stature calculated from femur length as per regression equation is 171.89 with a standard deviation of 6.77 for males and 166.9 with standard deviation of 4.53for females. The stature calculated from femur length by using multiplication factor is 170.19 with a standard deviation of 7.98 for males and 165.5 with standard deviation of 4.97for females. Conclusion: Positive correlation is observed between femur, one of the long bones of the lower limb with the stature of the individual. Our study ended with new regression equation and multiplication factor to determine height of person from the length of a femur in living.