Analysis of a 10-year period of body composition, physical fitness, and age relationships in a down syndrome population

Abstract

The objective of the study is to analyze the changes in the relationship between body composition, physical condition, and age over a period of 10 years in a population with Down syndrome. It is a trend research, which relates body composition, physical condition and age in a population divided in two groups differentiated by 10 years from when they had been evaluated. The results refer to the positive correlation of the hip perimeter in both groups of women, a lower relationship is seen in the year 2019 with respect to 2009. Men show lower relationships in 2019 in contrast to 2009. Physical fitness in women has a little predictable trend, Vo2 max has a negative relationship only in 2019, unlike dynamometry, where the positive relationship is seen only in the 2009 group. Men show that flexibility and abdominal capacity have positive relationships in the 2009 group. The opposite case with Vo2 max where the negative relationship is present in 2019. In conclusion the body composition exhibits a little predictable behavior over time, on the other hand the physical condition has a homogeneous trend.