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- Title
STUDY ON THE PHYSIQUE OF 60-80-YEAR-OLD HUNGARIAN WOMEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY.
- Authors
Tóth, Gábor A.; Buda, Botond L.
- Abstract
The knowledge of the appearance and the body composition subject to age related physiological changes has a great importance from the point of view of clinical morphology. We described the physique of the 60-80-year-old Hungarian women at the beginning of the 21st century. As it is known, by physique one may understand the morphological constitution of the adult person, developing as a result of genetic inheritance and adaptation to environmental effects. The results of the present study were obtained from the examination of 16 body measurements performed in 52 females. The somatotypes of the females represent a mesomorph-endomorph and meso-endomorph predominance. The average somatotype is 6.91-5.53-0.96. As compared to fertile women, a noticeable rise of endomorph and mesomorph components and, at the same time, a decline in linearity component can be observed.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; PHYSICAL characteristics (Human body); OLDER women; HUMAN body; SOMATOTYPES; AGING
- Publication
Papers on Anthropology, 2007, Vol 16, p273
- ISSN
1406-0140
- Publication type
Article