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A study of fat deposition indicators in ethnic and secular aspects for the last 15 years (based on published data)

Permiakova E.Yu.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia

Permiakova Ekaterina Yu., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6490-4004, e-mail: katerinapermyakova@gmail.com

Abstract

The present paper is devoted to the study of body fat deposition in modern children and adolescents from different countries and of different nationalities. Among the vast array of data devoted to the study of obesity trends in modern children and adolescents, we selected sources focused on two aspects of the problem: methods for assessing fat deposition indicators and study of these indicators in the ethnic and secular aspect. The above review demonstrates somatic changes towards the increase in fat deposition parameters in children, with slight variation between the groups. These processes determine the increase in the number of overweight and obese individuals, accompanied by a shift in percentile standards towards higher skinfold thickness and BMI values.

Keywords

auxology, body fat, skinfold thickness, body fat distribution, ethnic aspects

Цит.: Permiakova E.Yu. A study of fat deposition indicators in ethnic and secular aspects for the last 15 years (based on published data) // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2016; 2/2016; с. 59-64