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The description of body mass components among male and female students of Russian university of peoples’ friendship

Bets L.V. (1), Schuplova I.S. (1), Anokhina E.V. (2), Povarnitsin S.S. (1), Chtetsov V.P. (1)

1) Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of biology, Department of anthropology, Leninskie Gory, 1, p.12, Moscow, 119991, Russia; 2) RUDN University, Moscow

Bets L.V., e-mail: larisa-bez@yandex.ru; Schuplova I.S., e-mail: irishansky1@yandex.ru; Anokhina E.V., e-mail: e.v.anokhina@gmail.com; Povarnitsin S.S.; Chtetsov V.P.

Abstract

We have examined 197 male students and 124 female students in the age interval from 17 till 26 years old who came in Russia from countries of Central and Southern Africa, Central and Southern America, Central and Southern Asia. We countered the correlation between compo-nents of body mass. Nutrition is one of the most important ecological permanent factors that in-fluences on the correlation of body mass components. This factor is conditioned by geographic and climate peculiarities and also by economic and social life of populations. Distinctive sexual dimorphism was revealed in the patterns of distribution of body mass components among all ex-amined groups. The observed specificity of the component composition of body mass of students from different climatic regions may be considered as a marker of the degree of stress that male and female students experience from the environment.

Keywords

body mass, body mass components, nutrition, sexual dimorphism, adaptation, habitat

Цит.: Bets L.V., Schuplova I.S., Anokhina E.V., Povarnitsin S.S., Chtetsov V.P. The description of body mass components among male and female students of Russian university of peoples’ friendship // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 3/2013; с. 74-87