Age comparison between Prof. Dr. Rómulo Lambre Collection and the death data of Argentina

PLISCHUK, M.; DESÁNTOLO, B.; GARCÍA MANCUSO, R.; SALCEDA, S.; COSTI, D.; GARCÍA, M.; LAGUENS, M.; PAGGI, R.; MALIANDI, N.; PRAT, G.; ERRECALDE, A.L.; INDA, A.M.

Ciencias Morfológicas

Sociedad de Ciencias Morfológicas de La Plata

Año: 2007 vol. 9 p. 60 - 60

1668-5466

<!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:BookAntiqua; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:auto; mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; text-autospace:none; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:ES;} @page Section1 {size:595.3pt 841.9pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:35.4pt; mso-footer-margin:35.4pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> The osteological collection Professor Dr. Rómulo Lambre comprises 230 both sexes human skeletons of known age. Those remains were provided to the School of Medicine by the La Plata County Cemetery. The construction of any osteological collection may be biased in the sample composition. The variables that may bias the collection start at the moment of the death, with the decision in the manner of treats the body, the place chosen to burry the death and personal or familiar claims. Our aim was to determine if those variables bias the collection age distribution, confronting that with the information about the deaths occurred in the whole country. Since 1995 was the year most represented in our collection, the same year of the national survey was chosen to confront our sample. To make these comparisons we discriminated 10 age groups (0-11 months, 1-4, 5-14, 15-24, 25-34, 35-44, 45-54, 55-64, 65-74, 75 + years). After that we calculated how many individuals of our sample were in each group, and finally we compared this information to data from the Statistics and Information Direction of the National Health Ministry. The results showed a similar distribution for both groups under study, so we could conclude that our collection reflects the mortality of the country.