Study of Internal Organ Weight and Its Correlation to Body Weight in Kumaon Region of Uttarakhand

The present study was conducted to determine standard organ weight of autopsy cases in Uttarakhand region. Case materials were collected from 109 autopsy cases for the one year at the department of Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Haldwani, Uttarakhand from March 2011 to March 2012.The age ranged from15-78 years in males and 1–55 years in females and there were 23 females and 86 males. Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to see the relationship between the internal organ weights (IOW) with body weight (BW). The mean ± Standard deviation(SD) were represented by males and females respectively: Brain 1115.51±156.42/1016.09+141.01, Rt Lung 446.57±201.06/334±143.76, Lt Lung 477.85±201.22/344.37+140, Spleen 149.17±105.61/153.09±116.98, Heart 270.28±54.41/204.35±57.35, Liver 1419.80±395.27/1204.52±365.71, Rt Kidney 136.65±62.24/111.91±32.29, Lt Kidney 132.42±42.67/104.24±33.79. It was found that weight of different organs were positively correlated to body weight in both sexes except in male brain, lung and spleen are not correlated and in female spleen is not correlated. Females had a lower organ weight compared to males. In both sexes, weight of organ was lower than the western population. After attaining the peak, all organ weights declined with the advancing age.