[Physical development of children in the rural area of the Gomel region in post-Chernobyl period].

The results of screening of 200 children (88 boys and 112 girls) aged from 8 to 13 residing in rural areas with the environment contaminated with radioisotopes-traces of Chernobyl disaster. Changes in body weight, height and height-mass coefficient were shown. Disharmonious development of the children studied was demonstrated in age-sex dependence.

[Anthropometric characteristics of rural school children 8-13 years of age living in radioactive pollution areas].

The paper presents the results of a study of age- and sex-specific features of physical development in schoolchildren aged 8 to 13 years who reside in the rural areas exposed to radioisotopes. Changes in their body weight, height, and weight-height ratio are analyzed.

[Harmonic physical development of children in the town of Gomel in the post-Chernobyl period].

The results of investigation of the harmony of physical development of children living in Gomel (the density of Cs137 territory contamination is 1-5 Ci/km2) are presented. Age and sex characteristics of body mass and body length variations, annual mass gains, the mass and length parameter and the harmony of physical development are assessed. A significant proportion of the children have manifested disharmonious and sharply disharmonious development due both to the excess or deficiency of body mass of the 1st and 2nd categories.