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British Journal of Medicine & Medical Research 11(9): 1-12, 2016, Article no.BJMMR.20530 ISSN: 2231-0614, NLM ID: 101570965

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Determination of Prostate Gland Volume by Ultrasonography and Its Correlation with Anthropometric Measurements in a Subset of Karachi Population Iffat Raza1*, Nuzhat Hassan1, Pashmina Gul2, Anis Jafri3, Nosheen Zehra4 and Naila Younas5 1

Department of Anatomy, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan. Department of Radiology, Ziauddin Hospital, Clifton Campus, Karachi, Pakistan. 3 Department of Surgery, Bahria University, Karachi, Pakistan. 4 Department of Community Health Sciences, Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan. 5 Department of Radiology, Ziauddin Hospital, Clifton Campus, Karachi, Pakistan. 2

Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration between all authors. The concept, data collection and its analysis was done by authors IR and NH critically analyzed and gave the final approval. Author PG provided the clinical input. Author NZ helped in statistical analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/BJMMR/2016/20530 Editor(s): (1) Jingli Xu, College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico, USA. Reviewers: (1) Kulvinder Kochar Kaur, Centre for Human Reproduction, Jalandhar, Punjab, India. (2) Anonymous, Universidad Veracruzana, México. (3) Mohammed Salah, Beni Suef University, Egypt. Complete Peer review History: http://sciencedomain.org/review-history/11869

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Received 30 July 2015 Accepted 26th September 2015 th Published 17 October 2015

ABSTRACT Objectives: To establish the local reference range of prostate volume according to our subset of population. To correlate prostate volume (PV) with age, body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC). Methods: A cross-sectional study with 119 healthy adults aged 40-79 years without any prostatic pathology were recruited .The study population was categorized into 4 age groups (40 -