[Study of somatic sex maturation based on various anthropometric indicators].

Clinico-anthropometric investigation was performed in 840 schizophrenic patients and 135 patients with other mental disorders. Somatic sex differentiation was assessed using the Tanner index, biacromial and bicristal diameters. Body-building deviations towards non-differentiated adolescent-type patterns were observed only in schizophrenic patients with multiple regional morphologic dysplasias. This could be repeatedly confirmed in three samples of schizophrenic patients observed in different regions of this country. The retardation in the somatic sex differentiation is supposedly related to constitutional-biological features of the disease independent on the speciaficity of schizophrenic process.