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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">1398</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>THE CARRYING ANGLE OF ELBOW- A CORRELATIVE AND COMPARATIVE STUDY&#13;
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kothapalli</surname><given-names>Jyothinath</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Murudkar</surname><given-names>Pradeepkumar H.</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Seerla</surname><given-names>Lalitha Devi</given-names></name></contrib></contrib-group><pub-date pub-type="ppub"><day>18</day><month>04</month><year>2013</year></pub-date><volume/><issue/><fpage>72</fpage><lpage>77</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>Background and Objectives: The angle formed by the axes of the arm and the axes of forearm when the elbow is fully extended and forearm is supinated that obtuse angle is known as __ampersandsignldquo;carrying angle__ampersandsignrdquo;. Carrying angle evaluation is important to identify deformities of elbow. The present study aimed Measure and correlation of carrying angle with various parameters in young males and females.&#13;
Materials and methods: The present study includes 220 (110 females and 110 males) healthy students of MBBS from KBNIMS, Gulbarga, belongs to Karnataka were selected and ages groups is 18 to 22 years. Goniometry is used for measurement of carrying angle. Height measured in normal anatomical standing posture and length of forearm measured with measuring tape. Measurements were documented and statistically analyzed. Spearman?s correlation use to get relationship between parameters.&#13;
Result: In females there was a significant positive correlation (p__ampersandsignlt;0.05) of age with carrying angle of both sides, height was negatively correlated with carrying angle of both sides, no correlation between length of forearm with coring angle. In males Age and Height were not correlated with carrying angle but, the length of the forearm was significantly negatively correlated with carrying angle of both sides (p__ampersandsignlt;0.05). Greater carrying angle was found in females.&#13;
Conclusion: Carrying angle increases with age and greater in females may be because Olecranon?coronoid angle exhibiting high sexual dimorphism may be one of the causes and it may also considered as secondary sexual characteristic. Carrying angle measurement helpful in reconstruction of elbow disorders observed after treatment of distal humerus fractures and evaluating praumatic elbow injuries.&#13;
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Carrying angle</kwd><kwd> Elbow joint. Sexual dimorphism</kwd><kwd> Trochlear angle</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front></article>
