Capacidade cardiorrespiratória de mulheres jovens com diferentes níveis de atividade física
Year: 2009
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The cardiorespiratory fitness shows inverse correlation with morbi-mortality for cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Physical exercise has been recommended for prevention, being necessary adequate prescription. The aim of this study was analyze functional cardiorespiratory parameters in young women with different physical activity levels, stratify them and generate specifics orientations for exercise prescription. Fifty one cardiopulmonary tests of young women (20-34 years) – matched for age (± 2 years) and BMI (± 1 kg/m2) was analyzed, differentiating itself only in physical activity level: active versus sedentary group. The active group shows better indexes of maximal oxygen uptake – VO2max (40.0 ± 5.1 vs. 31,9 ± 5.4; p-value < 0,001) and percentage of VO2max in first (65.1 ± 7.2 vs. 60.3 ± 8.8; p-value = 0.03) and second (84.4 ± 5.7 vs. 79.3 ± 7.7; p-value = 0.01) ventilators threshold. It was observed a correlation between physical activity level and cardiorespiratory fitness (p-value < 0,001), with 87.5% of active women distributed between good and excellent capacity and 74.1% of sedentary group between weak and regular condition. According to results, it’s possible to conclude that active women show better cardiorespiratory fitness and reached ventilatory thresholds in higher relative load effort.
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Physiology (medical)
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2104387269