Age comparision 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; INDA, A.

La Plata

Congreso; IX Congreso de Ciencias Morfológicas; 2007

Sociedad de Ciencias Morfológicas La Plata

The osteological collection Professor Dr. Rómulo Lambre comprises 230 both sexes human skeletons of knownage. 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 themoment of the death, with the decision in themanner 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 thewhole country. Since 1995 was the yearmost 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 (0-11months, 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 fromthe Statistics and Information Direction of the National HealthMinistry. The results showed a similar distribution for both groups under study, so we could conclude that our collection reflects the mortality of the country.