Selected Aspects of Health Status in Rural and Urban Young Slovak Women
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.15405/epsbs.2019.02.02.41" target="_blank" >10.15405/epsbs.2019.02.02.41</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Selected Aspects of Health Status in Rural and Urban Young Slovak Women
Original language description
The menarche is a milestone in a woman’s life, when she enters her fertility period, the period when she can lay the foundations of a new life. However, many researchers are concerned with the impact of regular and intensive sport performance on menarcheal age as research has found that age at menarche is statistically significantly related to BMI, and a relationship between overweight (BMI > 25 kg /m2) and earlier onset of menarche has been identified. This study presents the results based on data obtained from a sample of 411 young Slovak female students aged 18.80 ± 1.87 years. We assessed the age at menarche in the current Slovak population in relation to their place of residence (urban or rural), and the amount of their sport activity before menarche. The mean menarcheal age of girls who performed intensive sport activities before menarche was 13.296 ± 0.87 years (urban girls 13.359 ± 0.75, rural girls 13.227 ± 0.99). The mean menarcheal age of girls who did not do sports on a regular basis was 12.792 ± 0.81 years (urban girls 12.818 ± 0.84, rural girls 12.774 ± 0.79). The analysis proved that the age at menarche to be significantly affected by sport activities. No significant differences were recorded between urban and rural girls as far as the smoking habit is concerned.Our results confirm that the factor of intensive sport .
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
D - Article in proceedings
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10620 - Other biological topics
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Article name in the collection
The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences EpSBS
ISBN
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ISSN
2357-1330
e-ISSN
2357-1330
Number of pages
12
Pages from-to
368-379
Publisher name
Future Academy
Place of publication
Londýn
Event location
Moscow
Event date
Nov 12, 2018
Type of event by nationality
EUR - Evropská akce
UT code for WoS article
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