Age features of the fat component of the body of men of different somatotypes

The aim of the study was to identify the age features of the fat component of the body in men of different somatotypes. The method of complex anthropometry and somatotyping was used to assess of the physical development of 955 men of juvenile and mature age, ethnic Kyrgyz living in Osh city and in its surroundings, healthy. The parameters of the fatty component of the body were estimated by caliperometry and bioimpedancemetry using the device «ABC-01 Medass» (Russia). Our studies have shown that among Kyrgyz men of youth and mature age dominates with abdominal somatotype - 35.3-36.0%, thoracic somatotype is present at the minimum frequency (9.0-11.0%); men of muscular somatotype are determined in 24.7-27.0%, and unspecified somatotype in 27.4-30.3% of all cases. The average thickness of the measured skin-fat folds in men of the abdominal somatotype of youthful and mature age is in 2.4-2.6 times higher than in men of the somatic somatotype, in 3.6-2.7 times of the muscular somatotype, and unspecified somatotype in 1,5-1...