青老年人体格营养指数的比较

COMPARISON OF BODY AND NUTRITION INDEXES BETWEEN THE YOUNG AND THE OLD PEOPLE.

对成都市一所老年大学的老年人和一所医科大学的青年人各２００名的身高、坐高、体重及皮褶厚度进行测量，并对青、老年人的三个体格营养指数进行比较。结果表明，女性青、老年人坐高指数有统计学差异；这提示老年女性的身高变化主要由于脊柱的缩短所致。但男性青、老年人之间的该指数无统计学差异；老年人Ｆ％、ＳＦＴ及ＢＭＩ明显高于青年人，这表明体脂随年龄的增长而增加。皮褶厚度以腹壁增加最明显，增加的幅度男性大于女性。

 The body height,sitting height,weight,skinfold thickness of two hundred young people in a university of medical sciences and two hundred old people in an old people university in Chengdu were measured.The body and nutrition indexes were studied comparatively between the young and the old people.The results showed that there was statistical difference in the index of sitting height between the young and the old female people.It indicated that the body height change of the old female people was due to the loss of spina.But there was no statistical difference in this index between the young and the old people of the male.F%,BMI and SFT of the old people were more than those of the young people,which indicated that the body fat increased with aging.The SFT of abdomen increased dramatically,and the increasing range of male was more than that of the female.