Is Disease an Indicator of Age? Radiological and morphological analysis of the sub-adult (younger than age 18 at time of death) skeletons in the crypt of St. Bride’s, London (360G-Wellcome-200019_Z_15_Z)

This project, "Is Disease an Indicator of Age? Radiological and morphological analysis of the sub-adult ( The proposed project has two goals: first, to identify, specifically with regard to children, the extent to which disease burden and age-at-death correlated in the past. The second goal is to address how correlations between disease burden (as observed in skeletal remains) and age-at-death (as confirmed by historical records) inform our current understanding of the relationship between age and disease in the setting of the third epidemiological transition. An investigation of similar questions, though limited to adults, was successfully carried out, and manuscripts and abstracts are currently being prepared for submission to a radiology journal and paleopathology and radiology conferences. These efforts would be furthered and extended by the proposed project, which would provide for complete integration of data across all ages-at-death, including data generated from studying the remains of sub-adults, in the St. Bride’s assemblage.