ABSTRACT
The aim of the investigation was to determine the major components of body mass in obese children. Two hundred and thirty-four children aged 8-16 years, including 181 healthy children and 53 obese children, were examined. The components of body mass in obese children were comparatively analyzed, by taking into account gender, age, and the disease seventy, which Indicated that the adipose tissue was the major component of the body, greatly dominating over muscular and bony components with its increase in progressive disease (up to 280 and 448% of the normal values in second- and third-degree obesity, respectively). The absolute content of fat as the body's major component in overweight children has no great gender differences. In children, obesity progression is accompanied by a statistically significant reduction in absolute body mass and in the proportion of an osseal component in younger age (8-10 years) groups.
