Normative values of cardiorespiratory fitness in Croatian children and adolescents

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0284410" target="_blank" >https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0284410</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0284410" target="_blank" >10.1371/journal.pone.0284410</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Normative values of cardiorespiratory fitness in Croatian children and adolescents

Original language description

Although defining normative values of cardiorespiratory fitness have been the topic of many Western societies, little evidence has been provided for less developed countries like Croatia. Since cardiorespiratory fitness rapidly declines in Croatian children and adolescents, the newly established normative values would help health-related professionals and physical education teachers to detect 'talented' groups and direct them towards sport and 'risky' groups for planning special interventions. Therefore, the main purpose of the study was to determine normative reference values of cardiorespiratory fitness. A total of 1,612 children and adolescents aged 7-14 years (mean +/- SD; age 9.7 +/- 2.4 years; stature 151.0 +/- 17.6 cm; body mass 45.1 +/- 19.1 kg; 52.5% girls) participated in this cross-sectional study. Cardiorespiratory fitness was assessed by the Maximal multistage 20-m shuttle run test and the performance was expressed as the number of stages. Maximal oxygen uptake (VO(2)max) was estimated by equations. Smoothed percentile curves were calculated. Boys outperformed girls in the maximal number of levels achieved after the 20-m shuttle run test and in the VO(2)max values at each age category. In boys, a gradually higher level of performance between ages 11 and 14 was observed, while in girls the values started to rise after the age of 8. Our study provides one of the first sex- and age-specific normative values for cardiorespiratory fitness assessed by the 20-m shuttle run test in Croatian children and adolescents.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plos one

ISSN

1932-6203

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

11

Pages from-to

1-11

UT code for WoS article

000984510200062

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85153686962