出版社：State Institution “O.M. MARZEYEV INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH OF THE NAMS OF UKRAINE"
摘要：Objective. We performed a comparative evaluation of anthropometric parameters (body length and weight, chest circumference) in 7-17 years-old schoolchildren in Western and Eastern regions of Ukraine for the establishment of the territorial peculiarities of their physical development as an example of the cities of Lviv and Luhansk. Materials and Methods. The anthropometric indices, obtained concurrently, and developed scales of physical development regression among 7-17 years-old schoolchildren in the cities of Lviv and Luhansk were the materials for the investigation. A reliability of the differences between the average values of body length and weight, and chest circumference of age-and-sex groups of schoolchildren of both cities was determined by the Student t-criterion. The peculiarities of harmonious physical development were considered on the base of the calculated body mass indices for each age-and-sex groups of schoolchildren and comparison of their values with the standards offered by Platonova A.H. (2012). Results. Significant differences between body length and weight, chest circumference were established among 7-17 years-old girls and boys in Lviv and Luhansk . Anthropometric indices by absolute values of the Lviv schoolchildren of all age–and-sex groups were higher than those of the schoolchildren of Luhansk. The Luhansk 16-years-old boys with a body length higher than in the Lviv schoolchildren of the same age and also 8-9-years-old boys and girls from Luhansk, whose weight exceeded the body weight in the Lviv schoolchildren of the same age, were the exception. Irregularity of harmonious physical development, disharmonious of physical development due to overweight in the separate age-and-sex groups of schoolchildren and excessive body weight of the Lviv elder schoolgirls were observed. The differences between physical development indices of schoolchildren from different regions can mainly depend on environmental pollution, inadequate nutrition and other factors which indicate the necessity of further study of causal-consequent relationships between indices of physical development and the affected factors, and also the turnover of the regional standards of physical development for its further evaluation in dynamics.
