Journal of AdvancedMedical and Dental Sciences Research

Background: A novel and intriguing discovery is the variation in rib slope between asthma patients and non-asthmatics. The goal of this study was to ascertain whether the decreased horizontal rib curve on a chest radiograph of an asthma patient is a distinguishing feature. Materials and Methods: The study included 100 participants with asthma and 100 people without asthma. The 100 non-asthmatic patients were diagnosed with gastroenteritis (n=9), trauma (n=18), urinary tract infection (n=5), depression (n=4), drug overdose (10), rhinitis/pharyngitis/tonsillitis (10), intracranial haemorrhage (n=11), headache/dizziness (10), abdominal pain (10), maylagia/neuralgia (n=6), upper gastrointestinal bleeding (7), infectious diarrhoea Lines were drawn horizontally along the sixth rib's midpoint and up to the place where it connects with the thoracic cage after looking at chest radiographs. The angle of rib curve (ARC), which lies between these two lines, was coined. The student's t-test was used to compare the ARCs between groups. The statistical programme SPSS was used to analyse the data. Results: The asthma group consisted of 46 males and 54 females with a mean age of 49.3 years. The non-asthma group consisted of 56 males and 44 females with a mean age of 37.5 years. The ARC was smaller in asthma patients than in non-asthma patients. In the asthma group, the mean male ARC was smaller than the mean female ARC; however, there was no statistical difference in gender in the non-asthma group (P = 0.405). Conclusions: In everyday practise, the current photographic trait may be helpful for suspecting a bronchial asthma diagnosis.