Do we walk enough in modern time?
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Section GROWTH and DEVELOPMENT
CHARACTER OF SECULAR CHANGES IN FUNCTIONAL INDICATORS
AMONG SCHOOLCHILDREN OF POLOTSK (REPUBLIC OF BELARUS)
Polina Natalya
Institute of History, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus (NAS), Minsk, Belarus
Dynamics of functional indices was followed for 8-, 13-, and 17-year-old schoolchildren of Polotsk. <...> Changes in hand dynamometry
(HD) in the period from 2002 to 2012 were also investigated among Polotsk schoolchildren. <...> A highly signifi cant
(p<0.001) decline of HD among 8-year-old boys was revealed: for the right hand – 1.6 kg less, for the left hand
– 1.7 kg less. <...> The decrease of hand strength among schoolchildren
was observed in various countries, so the tendency for the HD level to grow parallel to the improvement of
the functional traits of the cardiovascular system among adolescent boys of Polotsk deserves attention and
might be connected with stabilization of ecological and economic situation in Belarus. <...> Key words: schoolchildren, performance indicators, secular trend
Contact information: Polina Natalya, e-mail: natpolina@mail.ru. <...> Scheffl er Christiane1
, Hermanussen Michaell,2
1Human Biology Department, Potsdam University, Potsdam, Germany
2Pediatrician, Gettorf, Germany
Modern human life style has led to signifi cant decreases of everyday physical activity and bipedal locomotion. <...> It has previously been shown that skeletal robustness (relative elbow breadth) is associated with
daily step counts. <...> The aim of the study was to investigate whether other skeletal measures, particularly pelvic
breadth, also may have changed in recent decades. <...> Elbow breadth, pelvic breadth (bicristal), and thoracic
depth and breadth, of up to 28,975 healthy females and 28,288 healthy males aged 3–18 years from crosssectional
anthropological surveys performed between 1980 and 2012 by the Universities of Potsdam and
Berlin, Germany, were re-analysed. <...> Since 1980 relative elbow breadth (Frame index) signifi cantly decreased
in both sexes (<0.001). <...> The trend towards slighter built was even more pronounced in absolute and relative
pelvic breadth. <...> In contrast, equivalent changes of parts of the skeletal system that are not involved in bipedal
locomotion such as thoracic breadth, thoracic depth and the thoracic index were absent. <...> The present investigation
confi rms the decline in relative elbow <...>
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