KNEE HEIGHT-PROXY INDICATOR OF BODY HEIGHT IN SUBJECTS OF NORTH INDIA

Medical Anatomy

Body Height decreases with age almost entirely because of shrinkage of the vertebral column and osteoporosis; therefore, an alternative means to study body height that were independent of age were found as “Surrogate Methods” or “Proxy Indicators “ of body height.This study was conducted to correlate Knee Height with Body height and to compute linear regression equations to estimate body height according to gender including age as a predictor variable in order to reduce the inherent problem of sample specificity and enhance accuracy confidence in the estimation. This exploratory study was conducted on asymptomatic, healthy 1000 subjects (500 males and 500 females), residents of Teerthanker Mahaveer University of cosmopolitan origin age over 18 years old with no diagnosed history of knee arthropathy and spinal deformity. Their body height and knee height were measured and all the readings were subjected to Statistical Analysis using mean± standard deviation, Pearson’s correlation coefficients and linear regression analyses.In present study, knee height was found to be statistically significant and positive with body height. Regression equations for estimating body height were developed according to gender including age as a predictor variable in order to reduce the inherent problem of sample specificity and enhance accuracy confidence in the estimation.

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