Somatotype Characteristics of Female Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus / Характеристика Соматотипа Жен Щин, Больных Сахарным Диабетом Типа 2

Abstract

The mean somatotype of diabetic females aged 40-60 years is mesomoph-endomorph; it differs from the mesomorphic mesomorph somatotype of the control subjects, Endomorphy and mesomorphy dominate clearly, and ectomorphy significantly lags behind. This was the reason we get a distorted somatoplot with a sharp shift to endomorphy and mesomorhpy. The mean somatotype of diabetic women aged 60-80 years was endomorphic mesomorphy with the mesomorphy component leading. It differed from the somatotype of the controls, where mesomorphy and endomorphy scored equally (mesomorph-endomorph). The somatotype of female diabetics suggests that they have a relatively massive skeleton with well-developed muscles and greater body weight relative to height. Unlike the results of studies in other countries presenting with markedly dominating endomorphy, in our study the Bulgarian diabetic females presented with dominating mesomorphy. This can be regarded as a peculiarity of the Bulgarian diabetic patients. The somatotype of the Bulgarian diabetic females is more favorable on the risk, course and prognosis of the disease.

The association between somatotype and nutritional status: a cross-sectional study among the adult Sabar males of Purulia, West Bengal, India

“…Nutritional status of an individual is manifested through body size, shape and composition and over the last three decades, there have been a plethora of research works conducted in this field which have demonstrated the influence of somatotype on nutrition as well as on overall health status by focusing on the improvement of functional capacity (Leonardo Mendonça et al 2012;Carrasco Alarcón et al 2015;Penggalih et al 2016;Hume and Ackland 2017). Nevertheless, studies have also been conducted to find out the association of somatotype with arterial hypertension (Koleva et al 2002), abdominal adiposity (Williams et al 2000;Ramos-Jiménez et al 2019), blood pressure (Kalichman et al 2004), type 2 diabetes (Baltadjiev 2013;Urrutia-García et al 2015) etc. In India, the studies on somatotype are mostly on population variations in terms of age and sex variation -mainly conducted among children, adolescents and women (Gaur and Singh 1997;Gaur et al 1999;Gakhar and Malik 2002;Dkhar 2005;Bhasin and Jain 2007;Singh 2011;Srivastava et al 2012;Chandel and Malik 2012;Roy and Kundu Chowdhury 2013;Longkumer 2014;Kaur and Malik 2016;Kaur et al 2018;Chandel et al 2018;Mallick et al 2018;Shimrah et al 2020).…”

Body Composition and Characterization of Skinfold Thicknesses from Polycystic Ovary Syndrome Phenotypes. A Preliminar Case-Control Study

“…The anthropometric evaluation of the International Society of the Advancement of Kinanthropometry (ISAK) is proposed to measure body composition in women with PCOS, which might be associated with a worse phenotype of PCOS. On the other hand, our findings could be used as a tool for screening of PCOS and treatment strategies for high-risk metabolic phenotypes [50]. There is a paucity of literature on PCOS women and somatotype profile defined by ISAK [17,24,37].…”

Tipe tubuh (somatotype) dengan sindrom metabolik pada wanita dewasa non-obesitas usia 25 – 40 tahun

“…Nilai endomorf (p=0,005; r=0,4) dan ektomorf (p=0,000; r= -0,53) pada penelitian ini menunjukkan adanya hubungan dengan lingkar pinggang. Hal ini sejalan dengan penelitian yang dilakukan pada etnis Bulgaria yang menunjukkan bahwa nilai endomorf dan kejadian obesitas sentral berjalan sejajar, semakin tinggi nilai endomorf maka semakin besar risiko untuk mengalami obesitas sentral (22). Endomorf merefl eksikan perkembangan dari jaringan endodermal, dominan pada jaringan yang berhubungan dengan penyimpanan lemak (5).…”