[Expertise of anthropometric indicators of children and adolescents of the Nizhny Novgorod Region in 1944/45-1959/60-2019/22].

OBJECTIVE

To analyze the main anthropometric indicator - body length of children and adolescents - with a view to applying the current regional standard in the practice of forensic medical examinations in the constituent entity of the Volga Federal District.

MATERIAL AND

METHODS

Analysis of retrospective regional standards of the «body length» anthropometric indicator in 218 109 children and adolescents in 1944/45 and 1959/60, biometric systematics of the indicator for the modern population of children and adolescents aged 7-17 years (11 392 cases) in the Nizhny Novgorod Region were performed.

RESULTS

Significant increases in the indicators of body length have been found in all age-sex groups. Evaluation tables, which allow to more argumentatively carry out age-sex identifications of anthropometric indicators im appropriate examinations, have been proposed.

CONCLUSION

It has been shown that modern environmental factors of natural and anthropogenic character make a corresponding contribution to the modifications of physical development's indicators in general and position body length in particular in the population of children and adolescents of the Nizhny Novgorod Region.