[The somatotype and fatty body weight of medical students].
The somatotype was determined of 247 healthy students of medicine, male Bulgarians, average age 22, according to the method of Heath and Carter. More than half of the examined subjects (55,9%) was established to belong to the group of mesomorphy with a predomination of the subgroup of endomorphic mesomorphy. The other morphological structures are presented in comparatively identical shares. The fatty body mass, being 16,29 per cent of the total body mass of the subjects studied was determined to the same subjects according to the method of Möhr and Milev. It was established that the fatty body mass was within the physiological limits among the students from the group of ectomorphy and from the group with balanced mesomorphy, non-manifested obesity had the subjects with ectomorphic endomorphy, endomorphic mesomorphy and with central somatotype and with manifested obesity--the students with balanced and mesomorphic endomorphy.
D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging; D001827:Body Height; D001835:Body Weight; D002031:Bulgaria; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009765:Obesity / Q000145:classification; D012016:Reference Values; D013008:Somatotypes; D013337:Students, Medical
Somatip i mastna telesna masa pri studenti meditsi.