[Somatometric characteristics of normal young children and children with endocrine pathology].

Somatometry and somatotyping was performed in 570 healthy children in the first childhood period, attending preschool institutions, and in 78 children with pathology (including 59 children with diabetes mellitus and 19 with thyroid pathology) undergoing clinical investigation and treatment in the Department of Endocrinology of Rostov-on-Don Scientific Research Institute of Obstetrics and Pediatrics. The results obtained revealed that thyroid hyperplasia was most frequent in children of micromuscular type with the average development of bone and adipose somatic components. Congenital hypothyroidism was prevalent in children of macrocorpulent type having the average and high bone mass parameters. In children with diabetes mellitus low values were found for the indices characterizing the degree of development of all anatomical somatic components.