PhD Scientific Days 2025

Poster Session I. - T: Cardiovascular Medicine and Research

Correlations between body composition and aerobic fitness in elite female youth water polo players

Előadó neve

Dr. Zamodics Mark

Neptun code

w5gnw3

Előadó munkahelye

Városmajori Szív- és Érgyógyászati Klinika

Előadó telefonszáma

+36308622211

Előadó e-mail címe

zamodicsmark@gmail.com

Az előadás címe

Correlations between body composition and aerobic fitness in elite female youth water polo players

Szerző(k) neve és munkahelye

Mark Zamodics¹, Mate Babity¹, Gusztáv Schay², Tamas Leel-Ossy³, Regina Benko¹, Alexandra Fabian¹, Adrienn Ujvari¹, Zsuzsanna Ladanyi¹, Dorottya Balla¹, Hajnalka Vago¹, Attila Kovacs¹, Eva Hosszu⁴, Szilvia Mészáros⁵, Csaba Horváth⁵, Bela Merkely¹, Orsolya Kiss¹

1: Heart and Vascular Center
2: Department of Biophysics and Radiation Biology
3: Department of Internal Medicine and Oncology,
4: Pediatric Center, Tűzoltó Street Department
5: Department of Internal Medicine and Oncology

Bemutatás módja

Poszter

Szekció

Poster Session I. - T: Cardiovascular Medicine and Research

Language of the presentation

Hungarian

Preferred session

Cardiovascular Medicine and Research

Összefoglaló szövege

Body composition and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) are vital for optimizing sports
performance, but their correlations are still underexplored. Our study aimed to investigate the
relationships between body composition and specific CPET variables describing physical fitness in young
athletes, also adjusting for age and height, in a less studied, female population.
Seventy players participated in our study (age:16.10±1.63y). After determining body composition using
dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, we conducted treadmill-based maximal intensity CPET. Data were
analyzed in R using multivariate linear regression, accounting for age and height as confounders.
Lean body mass (LBM), body fat mass (BFM), and bone mineral content (BMC) showed no effect on
resting, maximum, or recovery heart rates and no correlation with resting or maximal lactate values. LBM
positively correlated with maximum ventilation (VE-max) (Est:1.3e-3, SE:6.1e-4, p<0.05) and maximum
absolute oxygen consumption (VO2abs-max) (Est:7.7e-5, SE:6.9e-6, p<0.001) - with age as an influencing
factor for VE-max and height as an influencing factor for VO2abs-max. Conversely, BFM showed a
negative correlation with maximum relative oxygen consumption (VO2rel-max) (Est:-4.8e-4,SE:1.2e-4,
p<0.001). Moreover, BFM and BMC also negatively correlated with maximal exercise duration
(Est:-2.2e-4,SE:8.0e-5, p<0.01, Est:-3.2e-3,SE:1.4e-3, p<0.05) with height as an influencing factor.
Our findings indicate complex correlations between body composition and CPET parameters providing
important information for the analysis of individual ergospirometric data. Our results draw attention to
the fact that body composition is more precise than weight and height in the evaluation of physical fitness
results of athletes.

University

Semmelweis University

Supervisor

dr. Orsolya Kiss

Publication of my abstract

I do not give consent to the publication of my abstract on the website of the congress.

phd.section.field

in doctoral studies before complex exam (PhD)

Kind

Szabad

Status

elfogadva

Accepted presentation method

poszter

Előadás fájl jóváhagyás

nem rendelkezett róla

Előadó

6882

Start

17:30

End

17:36