Asessing influence of anthropometric data of women basketball players on alternations of cardiovascular parameters during physical activity applying the model of integrated evaluation

Abstract

The aim of the study was assessing influence of antropometric data of women baskelball players on alternations of cardiovascular parameters during physical activity applying the model of integrated evaluation. materials and methods of the study. The contingent of subjects consisted of 38 healthy women baskelball players. A comparison between 2 groups of women basketballers made up of 22 women containing more fat (FWB) and 16 women containing less fat (LWB). The quantities of fat, expressed in percent, were registered after performing the evaluation of mass components using the bioelectric impedance method having applied the "Body composition analyser TBF-300". "Kaunas-Load", an automatized ECG analysis system, created at the Institute of Cardiology of Kaunas University of Medicine, that is capable of both registering and analyzing the power developed by the subject, and 12 leads of ECG synchronically, has been used for evaluating the functional condition of the cardiovascular system. A short-term provocative protocol was used. During bicycle ergometry research parameters reflecting several basic interrelated systems of the human organism, i.e.the executive, the supplying and regulatory systems were registered. Making use of the integral model of evaluation both separate and integrated functions of the systems mentioned were evaluated. The following parameters were evaluated: heart rate (HR), JT interval and the deduced JT/RR ratio index. the pulse amplitude (S-D) and pulse blood pressure ratio amplitude ((S-D)/S). Results. Heart rate of women baskeltall players, whose bodies contain more fat, i.e. fatter women basketballers (FWB), at rest, during warming-up prior to the load and at steady state at every step of the load was lower, compared to that of women basketball players, whose bodies contain less, fat, i.e. learner women basketballers (LWB) and at the load of 100W this difference was significant (p<0.05). [...].