Girth and transverse body dimensions in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis without and taking into account somatotype

Annotation. Determining the features of the body structure in women with gynecological diseases is an important direction of modern scientific research. Anthropometric characteristics can reflect complex relationships between the constitutional features of the body and pathological processes. Assessment of these parameters allows us to expand our understanding of individual risk factors. This creates the prerequisites for the development of new approaches to diagnosis and prevention. The aim of the study was to establish the features of girth and transverse body dimensions in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis without and taking into account the somatotype. In 89 Ukrainian young women (aged 16 to 18 years) with genital endometriosis, the girth and transverse body dimensions were determined. The control group consisted of the initial girth and transverse body dimensions of 78 practically healthy Ukrainian young women of a similar age group taken from the data bank of the National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya Research Center. Statistical processing was performed in the licensed package “Statistica 6.0” using non-parametric methods for evaluating the results. As a result of the conducted studies, it was found that in patients with genital endometriosis young women without taking into account the somatotype and representatives of different somatotypes, the girth dimensions of the body have significantly smaller values, or tendencies towards smaller values (more pronounced in groups without taking into account the somatotype and in ecto-mesomorphs), and the width of the distal epiphyses of the upper limb, the transverse lower thoracic and anterior-posterior mid-thoracic diameters are, on the contrary, significantly larger than the corresponding indicators of practically healthy young women of similar groups. In addition, in patients young women without taking into account the somatotype and representatives of the mesomorphic somatotype, the width of the distal epiphysis of the thigh is significantly smaller than in practically healthy young women of similar groups. Larger values of the width of the distal epiphyses of the upper extremities in young women patients against the background of smaller values of the width of the distal epiphyses of the thigh are a manifestation of the “subpathological” constitutional type in girls with genital endometriosis. When comparing the girth dimensions of the body between young women patients of different somatotypes, in most cases significantly larger values were found in representatives of the mesomorphic somatotype; and when comparing transverse dimensions, in most cases significantly smaller values were found in representatives of the ectomorphic somatotype.