ORIGINAL RESEARCH

Bioimpedance analysis of body composition in the diagnosis of physical development disorders in children and adolescents

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Samara State Medical University, Samara, Russia

Correspondence should be addressed: Mikhail Yu. Gavryushin
Chapayevskaya st. 89, Samara, 443099, Russia; ur.umsmas@nihsuyrvag.uy.m

About paper

Funding: the study was supported by the grant from the President of the Russian Federation (МК-5809.2021.3).

Author contribution: Gavryushin MYu — research initiator, design, data acquisition; Sazonova OV — scientific management; Gorbachev DO, Borodina LM — literature analysis, manuscript writing and editing; Frolova OV, Tupikova DS, Berezhnova OV — data acquisition, processing of the results; Trubetskaya SR — processing of the results, manuscript writing.

Compliance with ethical standards: the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Samara State Medical University (protocol № 2 dated February 24, 2021). The informed consent was obtained from all participants (their legal representatives).

Received: 2021-12-01 Accepted: 2021-12-15 Published online: 2021-12-27
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Fig. 1. Age-dependent changes of anthropometric indicators of physical development in the studied sample of children
Fig. 2. Comparison of the results of the physical development assessment with the use of regression scores and BAZ indices in the groups of boys and girls, constituting the studied sample
Fig. 3. Distribution of %BF in the groups of boys and girls, constituting the studied sample
Fig. 4. Comparison of %BF distributions depending on the levels of physical development when using regression scores and BAZ indices in the studied sample
Table 1. Criteria for assessment of the children's physical development
Table 2. Distribution of anthropometric indicators based on the BAZ indices in the studied sample of school students
Note: normal values are highlighted