Comprehensive assessment of health allows to obtain a complete information on the body’s functioning and timely identify existing abnormalities.

OBJECTIVE

To perform a comprehensive assessment of various aspects of students’ health.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Anthropometry, cardiointervalography, blood biochemical parameters investigation and bioimpedansometry were performed during the study in preventive examinations of 1046 students aged 18—27 years at the Health Center of the Arzamas City Hospital No. 1. Testing of students’ physical fitness was carried out during physical education classes at the university.

RESULTS

It has been revealed based on the results of examinations that 69.8% of young men and 72.5% of young women had normal glucose, cholesterol and ankle-brachial index parameters. Abnormalities of three parameters have been identified in 3.7% of young people. Indicator of regulatory system activity was normal in 19.5% of students. The state of moderate and severe stress was determined in 63.4% of students, and state of overstress — in 17.1%. It has been found when studying body’s component composition (BCC) that body fat mass content corresponded to age-sex standards in 53.8% of students, is lower than standard in 9.1% and is excessive in 37.1% (33.4% of young men and 40.2% of young women). In addition, 22.5% of students had overweight based on body mass index assessment. BCC index (BCCI) was determined based on the bioimpedansometry: unsatisfactory BCCI was noted in 19.9%, satisfactory — in 46.6%, good — in 28.4%, excellent — in 5.1% of students. The highest proportions of good and excellent BCCI scores were revealed in students with satisfactory and intense adaptation. Unsatisfactory and satisfactory BCCI scores mostly refer to states of unsatisfactory adaptation and adaptation breakdown. Approximately every second student had an average level of somatic and fitness health (47.5 and 49.3%, respectively, according to the assessment method). Fitness health assessment provides more informative characteristics of the body’s physical state because it is based on anthropometric, bioimpedance, functional and physical parameters.

CONCLUSION

There were no abnormalities of studied parameters in 10.3% of students. Severe abnormalities, which can be corrected in timely adequate and comprehensive therapy, were found in 2.3% of students.