The relations between somatotype and the mineral density of skeletal bones, as well as the mass of muscular, connective and fatty tissues

1095 normal subjects, residents of the Ural region, were examined by a dichromatic bone densitometer of «GE/Lunar» firm (USA). After that they were divided according to their somatotype: 365 normosthenics, 365 hypersthenics and 365 asthenics. Age-related groups in girls were formed from the age of 16 years, in youths - from 18 years, up to 20 years - every other year, after 20 years - every 5 years up to the age of 80 years. The somatotype has been revealed to influence the mineral density (MD) of skeleton, the mass of muscular, connective and fatty tissues: MD in girls has been formed at the age of 16 years, in youths - at that of 18 years. In normosthenics and asthenics MD at the same age was 95 % and 92 %, respectively. At the age of 80 years MD in women with hypersthenia was 30 % less than peak bone mass, in those with normosthenia it was 36 % less and in women with asthenia - 41 % less. In men these measurements were 11,17 and 20 %, respectively.