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Assessment of Child Anthropometry in a Large Epidemiologic Study
Published on: February 2, 2017
[Features of body structure of Estonian young girls and boys]
Kh T Kaarma1, G V Veldre, R A Stamm
1Physical Anthropology Center, Tartu University, Estonia.
Abstract:
Anthropometric investigation of 670 female students (aged 18-22), 1114 schoolgirls (aged 15-18) and 253 schoolboys (aged 17-18) has demonstrated that the body structure in these samples formed a distinctive system of significantly intercorrelated variables with the body mass and length being the major characteristics. By means of a mass-length (height-weight) classification it is possible to systematize all the single parameters, indices and body composition characteristics. Body mass and length are also assumed as a basis for the formation of extreme pure somatotypes--pycnic and leptosomatic females.
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