Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
"1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia; 2) Mongolian National Institute of Physical Culture, Ulаanbaatar, Mongolia "
Godina E.Z., D.Sc., prof., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-0692-420X, e-mail: egodina11@gmail.com; Zadorozhnaya L.V., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3143-3226, e-mail: mumla@rambler.ru; Khomyakova I.A., assistant prof., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2811-2034, e-mail: irina-khomyakova@yandex.ru
The aim of the study is to compare growth characteristics of Mongolian and Kalmykian children and adolescents. The materials were collected by the authors in 2008 and in 2010 as a result of anthropological investigations in the cities of Elista (Republic of Kalmykia, Russian Federation) and Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia). Total number of the investigated children from 9 to 17 years of age was about 2,000. The program included standard anthropometric measurements [Bunak, 1941], hand grip strength, somatotype evaluation according to Shtefko-Ostrovsky method. A number of indices were calculated including Body Mass Index (BMI). Both surveys were conducted in accordance with bioethical procedure. Statistical analysis, performed with the software «Statistica 8.0», included descriptive statistics, T-test, Mann-Whitney U test, discriminant analysis. The results show significant differences between Kalmykian and Mongolian children in most of the measurements: stature and weight, chest, waist, hip and arm circumferences, body diameters are bigger in Kalmykian schoolchildren and the differences are stronger in boys. During the whole age period Kalmyks are taller than their Mongolian counterparts. At the age of 17 Kalmykian boys’ stature is 173.89 cm, while for Mongolians it is 168.34 cm (р<0.001); for the girls the corresponding figures are 161.8 and 159.42 cm (p<0.05). Mongolian boys at almost all age groups have smaller values of chest circumference and BMI. Mongolian girls, on the contrary, after the age of 13 have slightly bigger values of chest circumference and BMI, as well as bone diameters. Both Mongolian boys and girls have significantly smaller values of skinfold thickness and fat mass. Hand grip strength for both boys and girls was much higher in Mongolian teenagers but tempos of sexual maturation – in Kalmykians. The results of discriminant analysis support ethnogenetic similarities between two groups studied with differences in the tempos of their pubertal development.
anthropology, auxology, ethnic differences, growth and development, children and adolescents, Kalmyks, Mongols
Цит.: Godina E., Lhagvasuren Gundegmaa, Khomyakova I., Zadorozhnaya L. Patterns of growth and development in Kalmykian and Mongolian children and adolescents // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2016; 3/2016; с. 104-114
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