title: [Features of body structure of Estonian young girls and boys].
abstract: Anthropometric investigation of 670 female students (aged 18-22), 1114 schoolgirls (aged 15-18) and 253 schoolboys (aged 17-18) has demonstrated that the body structure in these samples formed a distinctive system of significantly intercorrelated variables with the body mass and length being the major characteristics. By means of a mass-length (height-weight) classification it is possible to systematize all the single parameters, indices and body composition characteristics. Body mass and length are also assumed as a basis for the formation of extreme pure somatotypes--pycnic and leptosomatic females.
authors.affiliation: Physical Anthropology Center, Tartu University, Estonia.
authors.forename: Kh T
authors.initials: KhT
authors.lastname: Kaarma
authors.forename: G V
authors.initials: GV
authors.lastname: Veldre
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Stamm
authors.forename: M E
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Lintsi
authors.forename: Ia Ia
authors.initials: IaIa
authors.lastname: Kasmel
authors.forename: E A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Maĭste
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Koskel'
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000886:Anthropometry; D004957:Estonia; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male