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From Strikers to Keepers: Somatotype of Football Players from Slovakia [PDF]

Sports
Background/Objectives: This study aims to analyze and compare the somatotypes of professional football players from Slovakia with a non-athletic population. Methods: Comparative analysis of professional soccer players by their positions, goalkeepers (n =
Maria Vondrakova, Branislav Kolena
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Body Composition by Bioimpedance in Transgender Women, Cali, Colombia. [PDF]

Biomed Res Int
Background Nutritional classification based on body composition in transgender populations poses methodological challenges for health professionals, particularly when sex‐based reference criteria are applied. Providing care with a gender‐sensitive approach while acknowledging underlying physiological differences remains a complex issue in clinical ...
Valenzuela-Gallego AL, Becerra-Granados LM, Castillo-Albarracin AN, Fernández-González A.   +3 more
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Beyond somatotype categories: composition-based clustering of body types in young adults [PDF]

Frontiers in Physiology
Background and aimsSomatotype analysis classifies individuals into 13 categories based on unique combinations of the three principal components: endomorphy, mesomorphy, and ectomorphy.
Francesco Campa, Jordan Moon, Cristian Petri, Fabrizio Spataro, Giulia Baroncini, Eleonora Faraone, Leonardo Ortenzi, Tindaro Bongiovanni, Sofia Serafini, Pascal Izzicupo   +9 more
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Somatotype, metabolic features, and psychological distress in women with polycystic ovary syndrome: a case–control study [PDF]

BMC Women's Health
Background PCOS is a heterogeneous endocrine–metabolic disorder often associated with psychological distress. Changes in somatotype exist in women with PCOS; however, detailed somatotype patterns and associations between somatotypes and various ...
Vijayakumar K, Rajesh Karekar, Pranavi Sharma   +2 more
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Somatotype and body composition of healthy adult men and women and their contribution to civilization diseases risk [PDF]

Journal of Physiological Anthropology
Background Somatotypes describe changes in body structure and allow estimations of biological differences and similarities between subjects. They can also highlight the relationship between body composition and risk factors for worsening health ...
Lipowicz Anna, Pol Aleksandra, Świerczyńska Karolina, Nierwińska Katarzyna, Nowak Zbigniew, Myśliwiec Andrzej, Knapik Andrzej   +6 more
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Somatotype Analysis of International Football Players with Cerebral Palsy: A Comparison with Non-Disabled Football Players [PDF]

Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology, 2023
Football for people with cerebral palsy is a para-sport involving ambulant athletes with impairments, such as hypertonia, ataxia, or athetosis. The objective of the present study was to describe the somatotype of a representative sample of international ...
Carmen Doménech, Enrique Roche, Raul Reina, José Manuel Sarabia   +3 more
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Cardiorespiratory fitness of healthy Polish men and women with various somatotypes [PDF]

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
Background Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), assessed by maximal oxygen uptake (VO₂max), is one of the strongest indicators of cardiovascular health and overall risk of death.
Anna Lipowicz, Aleksandra Pol, Karolina Świerczyńska, Andrzej Knapik, Zbigniew Nowak, Andrzej Myśliwiec, Katarzyna Nierwińska   +6 more
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Application of Artificial Neural Network to Somatotype Determination

Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 2021
Somatotype characteristics are important for the selection of sporting activities, as well as and the prevalence of several chronic diseases. Nowadays the most common method of somatotyping is the Heath–Carter method, which calculates the somatotype base
Krzysztof Górnicki, Małgorzata Drywień, Górnicka Magdalena   +2 more
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ANALYSIS OF ADOLESCENTS’ (11-14 YEARS OLD) SOMATOTYPE IN PLOVDIV, BULGARIA [PDF]

Journal of IMAB, 2020
Introduction: The somatotype is a method for complex evaluation of human body structure and shape on basis 10 anthropomorphic indexes. Objective: The present analysis is part of the research of adolescents’ physical development at the age of 11 – 14 in
Gergana Petrova
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The Impact of Technical Error of Measurement on Somatotype Categorization

Applied Sciences, 2022
Inquiry into somatotype often seeks to assign participants into somatotype groups. The aim of this study was to demonstrate how the intra-tester reliability of anthropometric measures can influence how somatotype is categorized.
Helen Ryan-Stewart, James Faulkner, Simon Jobson   +2 more
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