Somatotype Characteristic of Children and Adolescents from Plovdiv

摘要

The purpose of the present study is to follow the growth dynamics of the three somatotypic components in chil-dren and adolescents from Plovdiv at the age from 7 to 18 years, as well as to find the inter-sexual and inter-age differences in their somato-typological characteristic. The investigated sample of this cross-sectional study in-cludes 888 boys and 717 girls. The Heath-Carter method of somatotyping is used.We found specific age changes in the development of the three somatotypic components. The changes in the average somatotype, with age, in both genders, are mainly expressed in coming under contiguous somatotypic categories.