Avaliação da composição corporal de idosos participantes do XX Encontro da Feliz Idade - Águas de Lindoia - SP 2008
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: This work proposed to establish a body comparison of active elderly under age of sixty, seventy, and eighty. The data collecting were made in the month of April of 2008, where were evaluated the following items: body weight, lean mass weight, fat weight, skinfold of triceps, biceps and abdomen. The following parameters were used in the elderly profile determination. From these data were found among the groups that didn’t have difference in the body weight, lean mass weight, fat weight, skinfold of triceps, biceps and abdomen. The results showed that the regular practice of physical activities helps about the point of view of body composition doing that the fat percentage keeps on the age of eight’s and presenting lower risks of diseases linked with fat accumulation like obesity.
Authors: Neto, Arthur Paiva; Escola de Educação Física do Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Guaxupé - Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, da Silva Júnior, Autran José; Escola de Educação Física do Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Guaxupé - Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Santos, Douglas Felipe Gomes dos; Escola de Educação Física do Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Guaxupé - Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Mendes, Mateus Simões; Escola de Educação Física do Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Guaxupé - Guaxupé, Minas Gerais
Institution: Centro Universitário da Fundação Educacional Guaxupé
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Physiology (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1490873056