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

Table 4

Comparison of parameters of the diaphysis among populations.

Measurement		Population	Female	Male	Combined
Group	Abbreviation
Diaphysis	CL (mm)	Japanese III [51]	254.0	273.5	265.7
		Japanese II [51]	268.5	293.5	280.4
		Korean (this study)	274.47	289.61	281.11
		Japanese I [51]	293.2	311.4	285.3
		North American Indian III [51]	299.3	316.7	308.2
		Inuit [9]	305.5	318.4	312.1
		North American Indian I [9]	302.6	329.6	319.1
		North American Indian II [9]	313.8	327.7	320.9
		African American II [9]	318.4	339.6	329.0
		European American I [9]	322.5	330.6	329.4
		European American II [51]	317.3	343.2	330.2
		African American I [9]	319.6	342.7	332.1
	ST (mm)	African American I [9]	8.4	8.6	8.5
		European American II [51]	8.4	9.3	8.8
		African American II [9]	9.2	9.0	9.1
		Japanese III [51]	9.2	9.1	9.1
		European American I [9]	9.4	9.8	9.7
		Inuit [9]	9.7	11.0	10.3
		Japanese I [51]	9.6	11.6	10.5
		North American Indian II [9]	9.8	11.6	10.7
		North American Indian III [51]	11.0	11.0	11.0
		Japanese II [51]	10.7	12.5	11.6
		North American Indian I [9]	10.9	12.2	11.7
		Korean (this study)	13.82	13.43	13.65

CL: chord length; ST: subtense.