MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN IN THE FIRST PERIOD OF MATURE AGE

Abstract

The relevance of the research topic. In the domestic and foreign scientific and methodological literature, sufficient attention is paid to solving the issues of health improvement of women of the first period of mature age. The leading role in optimising the process of physical education of women of the first period of mature age belongs to the design of various health-improving systems on the basis of scientifically grounded and adequate ratios of external and internal factors of their development. The purpose of the article is to determine morphological parameters in groups of women aged 23-25 years (n=17) and 26-27 years (n=20). Methods: analysis and synthesis of professional scientific literature, anthropometry. The data obtained were further analysed using the calculated indices. Calculations were performed by means of the IBM SPSS Statistics 21 statistical package. The study was conducted in compliance with the requirements of the World Medical Association's Declaration of Helsinki ‘Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects’. Results. The analysis of body measurements and the corresponding indices confirmed that the studied women had normal body proportions with minimal deviations, indicating the overall harmony of their physical development. All indices were within the normal range, indicating no significant deviations in body proportions. Other anthropometric indices, such as chest circumference (about 88 cm), shoulder circumference (26 cm), waist (70 cm), pelvis (95 cm), hip (56 cm) and lower leg (35 cm), confirmed the overall harmony and proportionality of the body structure, and with low coefficients of variation, these parameters describe most of the study participants quite accurately. Conclusions. It was determined, based on the descriptive analysis, that the average female participant in the study had a body weight of about 61 kg and a body length of 167 cm. The body mass index was about 21.8 kg/m², which corresponds to a normal body weight and indicates the absence of overweight or underweight, and according to the Rohrer index, the data showed harmonious physical development without significant deviations in proportions.