Body composition in Central Asia populations: Fat patterning variation in the Kazakhs of the Tien Shan mountains and the Uighurs of Semericia

✍ Scribed by F. Facchini; S. Toselli; O. Ismagulov; G. Fiori; A. Ismagulova; D. Pettener

• Book ID: 101295682
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 105 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1042-0533
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6300(1998)10:2<241::aid-ajhb9>3.0.co;2-n

✦ Synopsis

Eleven anthropometric variables related to fat patterning were analyzed in two populations of Central Asia, the Kazakhs of the Tien Shan mountains (2100 m) and the Uighurs of the Semericia plains. Subjects were healthy unrelated males, 122 Kazakhs and 79 Uighurs, 19-65 years. Comparisons were done with a preliminary analysis of variance and then by covariance analysis, taking into account the influence of age. The Uighurs, independently of age, show higher values than Kazakhs for all of the characteristics related to fat patterning, but principal components analysis suggests a similar somatic structure in the two samples. The presence of lower adiposity in the Kazakhs than in the Uighurs could be related to stress, probably associated with nutrition and lifestyle in a mountain environment. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 10:241-247, 1998. © 1998 Wiley-Liss, Inc.