Skinfold thickness in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis without and with regard to somatotype

O. A. Nyzova
In: Reports of Vinnytsia National Medical University · 2025 · vol. 29(2) , pp. 214–218 · doi:10.31393/reports-vnmedical-2025-29(2)-07 · W4411746826
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This study found specific skinfold thickness differences in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis compared to healthy controls, varying by somatotype and body location.

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The study measured skinfold thickness at multiple body sites using anthropometry in 89 Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis and compared them with skinfold thickness indicators from 78 practically healthy Ukrainian young women, analyzing results with non-parametric statistics and stratifying by somatotype. The authors found that, regardless of somatotype, women with genital endometriosis had significantly lower skinfold thickness on the upper limb and at the lower angle of the scapula, with the most pronounced reductions in ectomorphs, while some sites differed in the opposite direction (e.g., higher or tending higher skinfolds on the lower leg for mesomorphic and ecto-mesomorphic somatotypes and chest folds for mesomorphs/ecto-mesomorphs). When comparing diseased women across somatotypes, mesomorphic participants generally had higher or tended to higher skinfold thickness than ectomorphic participants in most comparisons. The paper’s limitation is that it does not establish causality or clearly define diagnostic/protocol details within the provided abstract, and it reports cross-sectional group differences. This paper is centrally about endometriosis — it characterizes site-specific skinfold thickness differences in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis, including how these anthropometric measures vary by somatotype.

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Annotation. Genital endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases of reproductive age, the pathogenesis of which remains multifactorial and insufficiently understood. Features of the body fat component may play a role in the course and severity of symptoms of this disease. Studying the thickness of skin-fat folds allows us to assess individual anthropometric characteristics, which may have diagnostic and prognostic significance. Taking into account the somatotype of patients opens up new opportunities for understanding the relationships between the morphofunctional features of the body and the development of pathology. The aim of the study is to determine the characteristics of skinfold thickness in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis without and taking into account the somatotype. Skinfold thickness was determined in 89 Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis. The primary skinfold thickness indicators of 78 practically healthy Ukrainian young women served as controls. Statistical processing of the obtained results was carried out in the licensed package «Statistica 6.0» using non-parametric evaluation methods. It was found that in patients with genital endometriosis of Ukrainian young women, regardless of somatotype, and representatives of mesomorphic and ectomorphic somatotypes, the skinfold thickness on the upper limb and at the lower angle of the scapula have significantly lower values (most pronounced in ectomorphs), and the skinfold thickness on the lower leg in patients with mesomorphic and ecto-mesomorphic somatotypes and the folds on the chest in girls regardless of somatotype, mesomorphs and ecto-mesomorphs, on the contrary, are significantly higher or tend to be higher than the corresponding folds in practically healthy Ukrainian young women of similar groups. When comparing skinfold thickness between sick Ukrainian young women of different somatotypes, in almost all cases, significantly higher or a tendency to higher values were found in young women of mesomorphic somatotype compared to young women of ectomorphic somatotype.
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Skinfold thickness in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis without and with regard to somatotype DOI: https://doi.org/10.31393/reports-vnmedical-2025-29(2)-07Keywords: obstetrics and gynecology, practically healthy and young women with genital endometriosis, anthropometry, skinfold thickness, somatotype.Abstract Annotation. Genital endometriosis is one of the most common gynecological diseases of reproductive age, the pathogenesis of which remains multifactorial and insufficiently understood. Features of the body fat component may play a role in the course and severity of symptoms of this disease. Studying the thickness of skin-fat folds allows us to assess individual anthropometric characteristics, which may have diagnostic and prognostic significance. Taking into account the somatotype of patients opens up new opportunities for understanding the relationships between the morphofunctional features of the body and the development of pathology. The aim of the study is to determine the characteristics of skinfold thickness in Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis without and taking into account the somatotype. Skinfold thickness was determined in 89 Ukrainian young women with genital endometriosis. The primary skinfold thickness indicators of 78 practically healthy Ukrainian young women served as controls. Statistical processing of the obtained results was carried out in the licensed package «Statistica 6.0» using non-parametric evaluation methods. It was found that in patients with genital endometriosis of Ukrainian young women, regardless of somatotype, and representatives of mesomorphic and ectomorphic somatotypes, the skinfold thickness on the upper limb and at the lower angle of the scapula have significantly lower values (most pronounced in ectomorphs), and the skinfold thickness on the lower leg in patients with mesomorphic and ecto-mesomorphic somatotypes and the folds on the chest in girls regardless of somatotype, mesomorphs and ecto-mesomorphs, on the contrary, are significantly higher or tend to be higher than the corresponding folds in practically healthy Ukrainian young women of similar groups. When comparing skinfold thickness between sick Ukrainian young women of different somatotypes, in almost all cases, significantly higher or a tendency to higher values were found in young women of mesomorphic somatotype compared to young women of ectomorphic somatotype. Downloads References Becker, C. 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