Proportion of some somatic, physiological, and psychomotor traits to extreme values of selected morpho-physiological traits in humans.

The material analyzed in this paper consists of inhabitants of the Suwałlki region (rural area), Bełchatów Industrial Center (under industrial development), Dabrowa Górnicza Region (heavy industrial region) and Lódź (textile industry city). A total of 1012 individuals of both sexes were examined. They were aged from 4.5 to 24.4 years, and characterized by extreme values (small or large) of five basic traits (body weight, vital capacity of lungs, heart rate after work, hematocrit index, and diastolic blood pressure). Individual morphological, physiological, and psychomotor traits were examined in relation to extreme values of these five basic traits. It has been found that some traits were compensatory with respect to the basic traits, but some others were adapted in different ways.