Morphometric Evaluation of Korean Femurs by Geometric Computation: Comparisons of the Sex and the Population

Table 3

Comparison of parameters of the whole and proximal femur among populations.

Measurement		Population	Female	Male	Combined
Group	Abbreviation
Whole	HOB (mm)	Korean (this study)	401.71	431.62	414.52
		Inuit [9]	405.6	430
		North American Indian I [9]	399.3	445.2
		North American Indian II [9]	419.2	443.4
		European American I [9]	433.8	448.6
		African American II [9]	427.4	464.0
		British (Aberdeen, UK) [2]	428	459	448
		African American I [9]	434.5	471.0
Proximal	HSD (mm)	French [28]			43
		Korean (this study)	43.25	48.50	45.50
		French [22]			45.6
		Turkish [11]			45.8
		American (Texas, USA) [23]			46.1
		Pakistani [31]			50.1
	HCO (mm)	Korean (this study)	37.26	38.69	37.88
		Swiss, French (Caucasian) [27]			40.5
		French [22]			41.0
		Pakistani [31]			41.9
		Turkish [11]			42.7
		American (Texas, USA) [23]			43
		French [28]			47.0
	NA2D (deg.)	French [28]			122.9
		French [22]			123.1
		American (Texas, USA) [23]			124.7
		Turkish [11]			128.4
		Swiss, French (Caucasian) [27]			129.2
		Korean (this study)	130.80	129.56	130.27
		Pakistani [31]			130.3

Specific population not mentioned; samples were considered to be from the country of the authors’ institute.
HOB: height measured by osteometric board, HSD: sphere diameter fit to head, HCO: head center offset, and NA2D: neck angle on coronal plane.