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<article xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="1.0" article-type="healthcare" lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">IJCRR</journal-id><journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">I Journ Cur Res Re</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>International Journal of Current Research and Review</journal-title><abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">I Journ Cur Res Re</abbrev-journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2231-2196</issn><issn pub-type="opub">0975-5241</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Radiance Research Academy</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">110</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi"/><article-id pub-id-type="doi-url"/><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Healthcare</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>Measurement of Renal Length and Width in Healthy Adults and Their Association with Various Parameters&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yadav1</surname><given-names>Subodh Kumar</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Yadav2</surname><given-names>Renu</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Chakradhar3</surname><given-names>Sunil</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Karn4</surname><given-names>Abhishek</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>20</day><month>02</month><year>2017</year></pub-date><volume/><issue/><fpage>29</fpage><lpage>32</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>This article is copyright of Popeye Publishing, 2009</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2009</copyright-year><license license-type="open-access" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>Objective: To find out the renal length and width in the studied Nepali healthy individuals; to see whether they have any association with the age, gender, height, weight and BMI (Body Mass Index).&#13;
Methods: Ultrasonographic measurement of renal length and width were taken in 110 healthy persons (57 males and 53 females) who were screened for presence of any renal anomaly. Height and weight of these individuals were measured and BMI was calculated. The significance of linear association between variables was tested using Pearson__ampersandsignrsquo;s correlation coefficient where p __ampersandsignlt; 0.05 was considered significant and regression equation derived.&#13;
Results: The mean renal length for the right and left kidneys were 9.77 __ampersandsignplusmn; 0.98 cm and 9.94 __ampersandsignplusmn; 0.86 cm. respectively. The mean renal width for the right and left kidneys were 4.08 __ampersandsignplusmn; 0.63 cm 4.18 __ampersandsignplusmn; 0.86 cm respectively. The renal length had statistically significant association with the weight (p __ampersandsignlt; 0.01) and BMI (p __ampersandsignlt; 0.01) but not with the age, sex and height of the individuals.&#13;
Conclusions: The renal length and width in this population was lesser than the reference values in international literature and the renal length had significant association with the weight and BMI of the individual. Also, in forensic practice if a dismembered body with intact kidneys is found, estimation of the weight of the individual can be done in this population..&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Kidney</kwd><kwd> Ultrasonographic</kwd><kwd> Weight</kwd><kwd> Age</kwd><kwd> Gender</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
