Purpose of this paper: In this article we have analyzed the relationship among clinical variables: age, sex, pathological history of interest of the deceased; medicolegal: initial cause of death, immediate cause of death, origin of death and medicolegal etiology of death, and histological or anatomopathological: anthracosis, arteriosclerosis, congestion, fatty degeneration, edema, emphysema, sclerosis, hemorrhage, inflammation, necrosis and other casual or incidental findings from the study of medicolegal autopsies chosen at random from no Covid-19 victims in pandemic times.

Design/methodology/approach: For the analysis of the relationships among the different variables, parametric and non-parametric techniques have been used: t-Student, ANOVA, contingency coefficient and Kruskal-Wallis.

Findings: The relationship among these variables has been significant (p-value  0.05): Sex-age (0.005), Sex-pathological history (0.000), Sex-immediate cause of death (0.037), Pathological history-initial cause of death (0.036), Pathological history-medicolegal etiology (0.043), Initial cause of death-immediate cause of death (0.000) and Initial cause of death-origin of death (0.000), Immediate cause of death-origin of death (0.000).

Research limitations/implications: We intend to expand the study in the future.

pathology, histology, forensic, legal, medicine.

Received: December 2, 2021; Accepted: January 19, 2022; Published: January 25, 2022

How to cite this article: Elena Martín Pérez, María Dolores Ludeña de la Cruz, María Sonsoles Castro Herranz and Quintín Martín Martín, Statistical study of medicolegal autopsias, JP Journal of Biostatistics 19 (2022), 95-106. DOI: 10.17654/0973514322006

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