Some morphological measures in tubercular patients and their comparison with normals

One hundred and fifty tubercular patients from the Tuberculosis and Chest Diseases Department Medical College, Patiala, were compared with the normal population of the same ages from Patiala district. The tubercular patients and the normal individuals do not differ significantly in height, lower extremity length, bicristal breadth and humerus bicondylar diameter. However, the values of weight, sitting height, biacromial diameter, chest circumference and femur bicondylar diameter are significantly less among the patients. The indices--sitting height/height, lower extremity length/sitting height, biacromial diameter/bicristal breadth--also show significant differences in the physique of the two groups.