Aging and the Indian Face: An Analytical Study of Aging in the Asian Indian Face.

ABSTRACT: Asian Indians make up almost one-sixth of the world's population. Although some aspects of facial beauty are universal, anthropometric morphology and age-related changes differ in all ethnic groups. Currently, there are hardly any published studies highlighting the process of aging in Asian Indians. We wanted to understand the aging patterns in different ethnic subgroups within Asian Indians and also compare the aging patterns with Caucasians.

Method

300 participants, above 30 years of age, were selected from different Indian ethnic groups (North, South, East, West). Recent good-quality photographs as well as those from the preceding decades (20 years and beyond) were studied. A validated grading score of 1-5 was used for assessing various aging parameters.

Results

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SUBMITTER: Shome D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7253281 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature