[Possible relationship between idiopathic scoliosis and morphologic somatotypes in adolescent females].
This retrospective study was conducted to verify the possibility of a relationship between morphological somatotypes and Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS). The sample was composed of 77 adolescent girls presenting Idiopathic Scoliosis. In every case, scoliosis was important enough to necessitate a corrective surgery. The control group (historical type) was taken from an anthropometric study done in 1990 [5]. Morphotypes were evaluated from medical slides with pre-established criteria based on Sheldon's technique [3, 4]. Three somatotype values were obtained: One for ectomorphism, a second for mesomorphism and a third for endomorphism. This classification system is calibrated in a way that the summation of these 3 values necessarily gives 7. AIS patients appear less mesomorphic with a mean value of 1,208 +/- 1.03 than the control group with a mean value of 1,923 +/- 0.89 (Student "t" test: 6,149, p < 0.0001). Based on these results, a relationship between morphological somatotypes and the presence of AIS appears possible. A more elaborate prospective study will be needed to support this hypothesis.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012016:Reference Values; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012600:Scoliosis / Q000209:etiology; D012737:Sex Factors; D013008:Somatotypes / Q000502:physiology*
Relation possible entre la scoliose idiopathique de l'adolescente et les somatotypes morphologiques.