Associação entre a obesidade infantil e a capacidade cardiorrespiratória: revisão sistemática

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the scientific evidence regarding the association between childhood obesity and cardiorespiratory fitness. Methods: A review was conducted on the literature arising from the search of articles published in the last five years in the databases SciELO and CAPES Journal Portal (Portal de Periodicos da CAPES). The descriptors used were cardiorespiratory fitness, overweight/obesity and children/adolescents/students. The study included full articles published in periodicals in English, Portuguese and Spanish, with publication year from 2010 to 2015, which aimed to predict the cardiorespiratory fitness with use of exercise testing in childhood obesity. Results: A total of 97 articles were surveyed but, after consideration and submission to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, five articles remained, two of them published in Portuguese, two in Spanish and one in English. Of the five articles analyzed, four studies reported that the cardiorespiratory fitness was affected by the body adiposity indexes. Conclusion: An inverse association was observed between the body mass index and the cardiorespiratory fitness, and the overweight students showed lower levels of cardiorespiratory fitness.