Constitutional characteristics of the body surface area in women of different somatotypes

Abstract

The aim of the study is to determine the features of the skin area in Kyrgyz women population in view of their constitutional groups and somatotypes.Material and methods. We studied the physical status of 1028 Kyrgyz women of different age groups – the juvenile age group (n=310), the 1st adulthood age group (n=310), and the 2nd adulthood age group (n=410) living in Osh and its neighborhood applying anthropometric and bioimpedance methods. Statistical data processing was performed by statistical programs Microsoft Excel and the package STATISTICA 6.0. The differences between the two compared values were determined by the Student's criterion and they were considered significant at p<0.05. Results. The performed study revealed the constitutional and somatotypological features of the skin area in the juvenile and both periods of adulthood in the female population. The body surface area is minimal in women of leptosomic group and maximum in megalosomic one. Somatotypological specificity is determined by the minimum value of this indicator in women of asthenic and stenoplastic types and by the maximum value in representatives of the euriplastic tall type. There is the tendency to increase the body skin area from the juvenile to the 2nd period of adulthood, which is typical for women of all somatotypes and constitutional groups. Conclusion. The area of the skin is one of the indicators of human physical development, which has somatotypological specificity in representatives of various constitutional groups of the studied women population. The presented materials on the constitutional and typological features of the women’s physical status in relative norm conditions can serve as one of the bases for further development of a personalized approach in clinical medicine.