Height Estimation Using Anthropometric Measurements On X-Rays Of Wrist And Metacarpal Bones

The aim of our study is to estimate of height from wrist radiograms. The wrist radiograms was taken from 100 healthy individuals in Ankara University Radiology Department and Orthopedics Department Hand Surgery Clinic between September 2005 and September 2006. For a common formula for the entire population, R=0.990 (correlation between the predicted value and observed values) was found between body mass index, width of the hand, width of the 3rd metacarpal, length of hand, age, width of 2nd metacarpal, length of 3rd metacarpal, body weight, and length of 2nd metacarpal, and multiple coefficient of determination (degree of explanation of the dependent variable by the independent variable) was calculated as R2= 0.9616. It was found that the fixed value and coefficients of height, length of the hand, and mass index were important. In conclusion, variables were selected with stepwise regression analyses, and accordingly, 5 regression models were established to calculate height.