Relationship Between Pattern of Fingerprints and Obesity
Keywords:
fingerprints, obesity, hands, loops, arches and whorlsAbstract
The goal was to research the pattern of fingerprints in all the fingers of both hands and to study the association between obesity and fingerprint among university students in different faculties of Koya University with statistical analysis. Dactylography or the fingerprint system relies on the study of stratum ridges and their configurations [dermatoglyphic (derma = skin+ glyph = carving)] in the fingers, palms, and soles. Estimates that probabilities are about one in sixty-four thousand million for two individuals with similar finger impressions. Arbitrate heredity and environment in combination affect the pattern of ridges. We have conducted a study with 120 individual (30 males and 30 females normal and obesity) having the different weight of (normal and obesity), this study was carried out in different faculties in Koya University. All the 10 fingerprint patterns were divided into loop, whorl, and arch. The fingerprint was taken with the help of a stamp pad imprinting the fingerprint ridges over A4 size white paper.
The general distribution of the pattern of fingerprint showed high frequency (58.41%) of the loop, whereas whorls were moderate (37.83%) and arches were least (3.75%) in frequency. Loops are dominated in both normal and obesity for both individual males and females. The study suggests an association between fingerprint pattern and obesity ( whorls in left hand of male and female, and arches in different finger of right and left hand of male, also whorls in different finger of right and left hand of female, and arches in different finger of right hand of female) but there is no association between fingerprint pattern and obesity in (loops, whorls, arches, among subject normal and obesity male right hand, loops, and arches among subject normal and obesity of male in left hand, also there is no association between loops, whorls, arches among subject normal and obesity of female right hand, and loops and arches among subjects normal and obesity of female in left hand, also loops and whorls in different finger of right and left hand of male, then loops in different finger of right hand of female, and also loops and arches in different finger of left hand of female) based on statistical analysis of chi-square test when results combined between both genders.
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