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Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth
The aim of the present study was to determine the level of morphological asymmetry among the general population of Polish youth as it correlates to sex and body type. The anthropometric characteristics of a group of 618 Polish youths (354 males aged 19.5 ± 1.2 years and 264 females aged 19.2 ± 1.2 y...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32915820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238706 |
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author | Krzykała, Magdalena Karpowicz, Małgorzata Strzelczyk, Ryszard Pluta, Beata Podciechowska, Karolina Karpowicz, Krzysztof |
author_facet | Krzykała, Magdalena Karpowicz, Małgorzata Strzelczyk, Ryszard Pluta, Beata Podciechowska, Karolina Karpowicz, Krzysztof |
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description | The aim of the present study was to determine the level of morphological asymmetry among the general population of Polish youth as it correlates to sex and body type. The anthropometric characteristics of a group of 618 Polish youths (354 males aged 19.5 ± 1.2 years and 264 females aged 19.2 ± 1.2 years) were evaluated to assess their somatotypes using the Heath–Carter method. Body composition was calculated using the bioelectrical impedance method, and the absolute asymmetry index was used for comparisons between the right and left sides of the body. Significant differentiation was observed between all morphological characteristics (≤ 0.0001) and two body types (≤ 0.0001) among sexes. Females and males largely exhibited endomorphic and mesomorphic somatotypes, respectively. The findings demonstrated that dominant somatotype and sex both affect the level of fat mass asymmetry in the arms and legs. Furthermore, significant variations in the levels of asymmetry between sexes were observed in fat mass in both the arms and legs, with greater variation observed in the arms. In the case of muscle mass, no great differences were observed between men, women, or body types. This study provides new data on the morphological asymmetry of given body composition according to somatotype and sex. This study has potential medical implications, given that a large degree of inter-limb imbalance could be shown to have a negative effect on health; the findings of the present study would therefore be important for arriving at an understanding of how to prevent such imbalances, or to mitigate their negative effects. |
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spelling | pubmed-74858832020-09-21 Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth Krzykała, Magdalena Karpowicz, Małgorzata Strzelczyk, Ryszard Pluta, Beata Podciechowska, Karolina Karpowicz, Krzysztof PLoS One Research Article The aim of the present study was to determine the level of morphological asymmetry among the general population of Polish youth as it correlates to sex and body type. The anthropometric characteristics of a group of 618 Polish youths (354 males aged 19.5 ± 1.2 years and 264 females aged 19.2 ± 1.2 years) were evaluated to assess their somatotypes using the Heath–Carter method. Body composition was calculated using the bioelectrical impedance method, and the absolute asymmetry index was used for comparisons between the right and left sides of the body. Significant differentiation was observed between all morphological characteristics (≤ 0.0001) and two body types (≤ 0.0001) among sexes. Females and males largely exhibited endomorphic and mesomorphic somatotypes, respectively. The findings demonstrated that dominant somatotype and sex both affect the level of fat mass asymmetry in the arms and legs. Furthermore, significant variations in the levels of asymmetry between sexes were observed in fat mass in both the arms and legs, with greater variation observed in the arms. In the case of muscle mass, no great differences were observed between men, women, or body types. This study provides new data on the morphological asymmetry of given body composition according to somatotype and sex. This study has potential medical implications, given that a large degree of inter-limb imbalance could be shown to have a negative effect on health; the findings of the present study would therefore be important for arriving at an understanding of how to prevent such imbalances, or to mitigate their negative effects. Public Library of Science 2020-09-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7485883/ /pubmed/32915820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238706 Text en © 2020 Krzykała et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Krzykała, Magdalena Karpowicz, Małgorzata Strzelczyk, Ryszard Pluta, Beata Podciechowska, Karolina Karpowicz, Krzysztof Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth |
title | Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth |
title_full | Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth |
title_fullStr | Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth |
title_full_unstemmed | Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth |
title_short | Morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among Polish youth |
title_sort | morphological asymmetry, sex and dominant somatotype among polish youth |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485883/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32915820 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238706 |
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