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Differences in body composition between three groups of students.
Authors: Linda Zeqiri, Daniela Shukova Stojmanovska, Georgi Georgiev
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The purpose of this paper was to confirm whether there is any difference in body composition
between the three groups: Group1 – females (N=25) aged 19–21, Group2 – females aged 22–24, (N=27), and
Group3 – males aged 19–24 years (N=22). Respectively to determine whether gender and calendar age has an
impact on the body composition of women and men. The parameters of the body composition applied in this research
were: height of the body (height), body weight (weight), body fat (body fat), muscle mass (muscle), daily
calorie intake (kcal), metabolic age (metabolic age), total body water (water), visceral fat (visceral fat) and body
mass index (BMI). Measurements were performed at the Faculty of Education in Pristina. The basic statistical
and distribution parameters that have been applied in this paper are Minimum, Maximum, Mean, Std. Deviation,
Skewness, Kurtosis, max-D, and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test (K-S). To confirm the differences between the arithmetic
mean of the groups the LSD-post hoc test was applied. The results obtained showed that differences were
obtained in the arithmetic averages in all parameters of body composition between Group1 and Group2. But a
statistically significant difference between these two groups has been gained in the metabolic age variable which
shows that from the age of 22 in women begins a decrease in daily physical movements. Also, after processing the
results by ANOVA analysis, significant statistical differences were obtained between the groups of females and the
group of males, in the arithmetic mean in all variables of body composition p<0.01 (except for the variable of body
composition Daily Calorie Intake (Kcal) p>0.38).