Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Somatotype Components in Macedonian Adolescents

Stojanoska, Biljana Bojadzieva; Janevska, Natasa Nakeva; Matveeva, Niki; Zafirova, Biljana; Chadikovska, Elizabeta; Gontarev, Serjoza

doi:10.15406/mojap.2016.02.00050

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“…Socioeconomic status (SES) is considered to be an important factor in the development of children and adolescents and is a modifier of biological characteristics such as height and weight [ 3 , 4 ]. It has also been reported that environmental factors may have a greater effect on lower limb length than genetic factors [ 5 ].…”

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The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on the Body Characteristics, Proportion, and Health Behavior of Children Aged 6–12 Years

Nieczuja-Dwojacka

Borowska-Strugińska

Budnik

et al. 2023

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Background: The research aimed to determine how socioeconomic factors influence the body structure and health behaviors of children in a suburban commune. Methods: Data from 376 children aged 6.78 to 11.82 years from Jabłonna, Poland, were analyzed. A questionnaire was used to gather information regarding the socioeconomic status and dietary habits of these children, and physical measurements such as height, weight, pelvic width, shoulder width, chest, waist, hip, and arm circumferences, and three skinfolds were taken. Hip index, pelvi-acromial index, Marty’s index, BMI (body mass index), WHR (waist–hip ratio), and the sum of three skinfolds were calculated. One-way analysis of variance, Student’s t-test, and X2 test with p < 0.05 were used. Results: The size of the family and the level of education and occupation of the fathers had a significant impact on the body proportions of the children. Children from larger centers with more educated parents were seen to have healthier eating habits and higher levels of physical activity, and their parents were less likely to smoke cigarettes. Conclusions: It was concluded that the development environment of the parents, such as their level of education and profession, play a more important role than the size of birthplace.

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The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on the Body Characteristics, Proportion, and Health Behavior of Children Aged 6–12 Years

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Borowska-Strugińska

Budnik

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“…Also, new studies, simultaneously considering 300,000 SNPs, increased the proportion of phenotypic variance explained to 45% (Yang et al 2010). Numerous studies indicated that growth and development of children and youth are strongly related to socio-economic factors (Sobal and Stunkard 1989;Kaczmarek 1995;Salmon et al 2005a;Salmon et al 2005b;Youfa and Zhang 2005;Wolański 2012;Zsakai and Bodzsar 2014;Stojanoska et al 2016). There were also reports that height, leg length, sitting height and some indices describing proportions of human body as: sitting height/stature, leg length/ stature, were associated with risk of overweight, coronary heart diseases, diabetes and certain cancers.…”

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Body structure and maturation – the association with environmental factors

Nieczuja-Dwojacka

Siniarska

Sikorska

et al. 2017

Anthropological Review

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AbstrAct:The main objective of the study was to determine the relationship between physique, maturation and some environmental factors. The study was conducted in Warsaw, between 2012 and 2013 in randomly selected schools. The material included 171 girls, aged 12-20 years. Body height and weight, upper and lower extremity length, subcutaneous fat folds on arm, subscapular and abdominal, circumferences of arm, chest, waist and hip were measured. Body proportion indices were calculated. The questionnaire form provided information on parental education and profession, and the number of children in family. Girls were asked about age at menarche, number of daily meals, level of physical activity, participation is sport, and level of stress at home and at school. The principal component analysis was applied and 4 factors were extracted from the set of living condition characteristics (F1 -Parental education & father's occupation, F2 -Mother's occupation and the number of children, F3 -Stress, F4 -Physical activity and number of daily meals). Regression analysis allowed to evaluate the association of body build characteristics and age at menarche with the four factors. Factor 1 and 4 were the only ones which showed a statistically significant association with body build. The results showed that girls who were taller, with smaller arm and waist circumferences and less adiposity came from families with higher parental education and better father's profession. Taller stature, longer legs and less adiposity characterized girls who were more physically active and consumed more than three meals a day.

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“…We can conclude that parents' educational level and employment status had some influence on body shape and composition. When determining the somatotype of Macedonian adolescents socioeconomic inequalities and sex should be considered [9].…”

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Analysis of Somatotype of Schoolchildren aged 12 to 15 years old and their Nutrition Behavior

Beghalia¹,

Nacer²,

Boufaden³

et al. 2020

Ukr. ž. med. bìol. sportu

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The stage of adolescence is the stage in which the young person’s life is affected by physiological factors influencing their activity and their personality clearly. The characteristics of adolescence differ because of many factors, including individual genetics, climate and nature. Physical growth at this stage is characterized by speed with imbalance where the body grows very quickly and inconsistently. This stage is characterized by the change in the growth of height and weight, and the effect of this is reflected in the breadth of the shoulders and the chest, the length of the trunk, the circumference of the buttocks and the length of the legs, and the physical growth reaches its maximum speed at the age of 12 years for girls and the 14 years for boys. Material and methods. This study includes the age group 12-15 of the school’s students. The study was conducted on a sample of about 70 pupils who were randomly selected, 32 of whom were girls and 38 boys from the total sample of the school’s total number of 355 students. We used anthropometric measurements through which we extracted the percentage of body masses as well as determined body patterns. In order to determine the effect of feeding, we monitored the nutritional behavior of the research sample for a month and recorded the contents of the meal (breakfast, lunch and dinner for the last day plus other random times). Results and discussion. The study showed that muscle mass was proportional to its eating behavior. Muscle mass is the predominant sample for both sexes. Its percentage is the highest among other ratios, as it was confined between 42.25% and 56.03%, followed by bone mass by 20.53% and 25.19%, and finally fat mass by 8.29% and 11.01%, respectively. The results showed that the amounts of substances rich in carbohydrates were those that govern the daily diet. The average meal during a month was estimated at 84.75% through eating large quantities of bread, couscous and pasta. Both height and weight were in direct proportion to age, and by tracking the growth path from the age of 06 to 15 years, the proportion of both cholesterol and triglycerides were proportional. With the mass ratio, the cholesterol ratio in the blood was estimated to be between [1.09-1.58] g / l, and the triglyceride ratio was between [0.78-1.02] g /l. Conclusion. Having analyzed and discussed the results, and similar studies, we concluded that muscle mass was the dominant one for the research sample on the bone and fat masses

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Impact of Socioeconomic Factors on Somatotype Components in Macedonian Adolescents

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The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on the Body Characteristics, Proportion, and Health Behavior of Children Aged 6–12 Years

The Influence of Socioeconomic Factors on the Body Characteristics, Proportion, and Health Behavior of Children Aged 6–12 Years

Body structure and maturation – the association with environmental factors

Analysis of Somatotype of Schoolchildren aged 12 to 15 years old and their Nutrition Behavior

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