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Pablo Valdés-Badilla1,2,3, Andrés Godoy-Cumillaf2, Jenny Ortega-Spuler4
1Instituto de Actividad Física y Salud, Universidad Autónoma de Chile. Chile.
Objective:
To associate health anthropometric indexes with physical fitness of elderly women (EW) who participate in physical exercise workshops.
Materials And Methods:
272 Chilean women over 60 years took part in the study. The variables studied were BMI, waist circumference (WC), waist-height index (WHI) and physical fitness (PF). Correlations were made through the Pearson or Spearman coefficient, and bivariate associations using Pearson's Chi-square and the Fisher's exact test, considering p<0.05.
Results:
70.8% of the EW were overweight or obese; 68.8% and 96% were at cardiometabolic risk due to their WC and WHI, respectively. Their PF showed equal performance (53.5%) or higher (33.8%) according to their age and gender. Inverse correlations were found between nutritional status and cardiometabolic risk with PF tests (except for agility and dynamic balance [direct]), and direct association with back scratch test.
Conclusions:
Excess weight in physically active EW would not affect their physical-functional performance; however, cardiometabolic risk would be inversely associated with motor function.
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