Didia Blessing C, Nduka Ethelbert C, Adele Okechukwu
Department of Anatomy, University of Port Harcourt, P.M.B 5323, Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
J Forensic Sci. 2009 Jan;54(1):20-1. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00915.x. Epub 2008 Nov 10.
In stature estimation, long limbs and the stature formula of Trotter and Gleser easily come to mind. In the recent past, a lot of workers have established formulae specific to their populations using whole length of limbs, fragmented bones, circumference of long bones, and even length of the vertebrae. We have in this work used tibia length, height of subjects, and the regression models to establish formulae specific to Nigerians. We measured height and tibia length of 200 (96 male and 104 female) adult Nigerians. The tibia length was measured from upper limit of the medial condoyle to the tip of medial malleolus using a measuring tape calibrated in meters while the height of individuals were also measured using meter scales. All measurements were made by one person, to avoid interobserver error, and repeatedly until a constant value is obtained. We obtained general formulae for males and females which compares favorably with that of Duyar and Pelin, and can be relied upon.
在身高估计方面，人们很容易想到四肢修长以及特罗特和格莱泽的身高公式。最近，许多研究人员利用四肢全长、碎骨、长骨周长甚至椎骨长度，为他们所研究的人群建立了特定的公式。在这项研究中，我们使用胫骨长度、受试者身高以及回归模型，为尼日利亚人建立了特定的公式。我们测量了200名（96名男性和104名女性）成年尼日利亚人的身高和胫骨长度。使用以米为单位校准的卷尺，从内侧髁的上限测量至内踝尖来测量胫骨长度，同时也使用米尺测量个体的身高。所有测量均由一人进行，以避免观察者间误差，并反复测量直至获得恒定值。我们得出了男性和女性的通用公式，这些公式与杜亚尔和佩林的公式相比具有优势，并且值得信赖。
