Canonical relations of skeletal dimensions and measures of subcutaneous fat tissue

The canonical analysis of relations between skeletal dimensions and measures of subcutaneous fat tissue on a sample of 737 men, 19 to 27 years old, resulted in four pairs of canonical dimensions with significant canonical correlations. The first canonical factor of skeletal dimensions was dominately determined by knee diameter and considerably less by elbow diameter, bicrystal range and leg length. The first canonical dimensions isolated in subcutaneous fat measures was determined by the skin folds of the upper part of body. The relation of the second pair of the canonical dimensions could be ascribed to the differential influence of relative reference of longitudinal and transversal dimensions on the accumulation of fat tissue measures. The dimension, associated to the third one, isolated from the skeletal measures, was defined by the transversal dimensions usually having the largest correlations with the factor of transversal dimensionality of skeleton. The connection of the fourth pair of cannonical dimensions could be atributed to the well known relations between the bicrystal range and the tendency toward fat tissue accumulation on the lower extremities