Kornienko I A, Panasiuk T V, Tambovtseva R V
Laboratory of Puberty Physiological Bases, Institute of Physiology of Age, Moscow.
Morfologiia. 1997;112(6):78-81.
Individual somatotype parameters and peculiarities of constitution in 7-12 years boys were evaluated in the present investigation. The age range studied was shown to be divided on 3 stages. Regular growth processes with the prevalence of "infantal" proportions occur at the age of 7-9. Signs of definite constitutional type are expressed yet insufficiently. The age of 10-11 is transitional which shows in delay of muscle growth. At the age of 11-12 prepubescent sets in, during which features of constitution types and appropriate somatotype parameters are distinctly manifested.
