Physical fitness as a function of cardiovascular risk through the waist-to-height ratio of sedentary
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https://doi.org/10.21527/2176-7114.2020.40.94-101Keywords:
Physical aptitude, Risk, Body composition, Anthropometry, Sedentary BehaviorAbstract
The objective of the study was to evaluate the physical fitness of sedentary individuals, comparing it according to gender, age group and cardiovascular risk through the waist height ratio. The sample consisted of 3,173 individuals of both sexes, considered sedentary and aged between 18 and 64 years old. Body mass, height, waist and hip circumference, skinfolds, motor tests (flexibility, elbow flexion and trunk flexion), systolic and diastolic blood pressure and resting heart rate were collected, and then the hip-to-waist ratio was calculated. height and mean arterial pressure, and the maximum oxygen volume was estimated. For the analysis of the data, the Kolmogorov Smirnov normality test was performed, and Median and Quartiles were used for data with non-normal distribution, Mann-Whitney "U" test for comparison according to sex and cardiovascular risk from Waist height ratio, Kruskal-Wallis test for comparison according to age group. SPSS software version 22.0 was used and the significance of p <0.05 was adopted. There were significant differences in all the measures evaluated in relation to the sex of sedentary individuals, the results were significant when compared to the male and female age groups for all variables within the 25, 50 and 75 percentiles, and also when comparing the groups of lower and higher cardiovascular risk. It is concluded that male participants have better physical fitness than women, and this tends to worsen with advancing age for both sexes and both sexes classified with higher cardiovascular risk presented worse physical fitness.
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