title: Physical fitness and fatness in adolescents with intellectual disabilities.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  This study investigated health-related fitness in adolescents with intellectual disabilities and analysed the various performances in physical fitness tests according to degrees of obesity.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-seven French intellectual disabilities adolescents (14.24 ± 1.48 years) performed the EUROFIT physical fitness test battery. Height, weight and waist circumference were assessed, and BMI and waist-to-height ratio were calculated. 'Bio-impedancemetry' evaluated body fat (BF) percentage.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Ninety-four per cent of the adolescents completed the aerobic running test, 52% of which had low VO(2max). Thirty-seven per cent were obese (%BF), and 32% had excess visceral adipose tissue. Adolescents with the lowest cardiorespiratory fitness had the highest BF percentages (P < 0.001).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Intellectual disabilities adolescents showed low physical fitness and high prevalence of obesity. Both could further worsen social participation and health status.
authors.affiliation: Centre de Recherche et d'Innovation sur le Sport EA 647, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Université de Lyon, Villeurbanne Cedex, France. laureline.salaun@gmail.com
authors.forename: Laureline
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Salaun
authors.forename: Sophie E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Berthouze-Aranda
mesh_terms: D050154:Adiposity / Q000502:physiology; D000293:Adolescent; D001827:Body Height / Q000502:physiology; D015992:Body Mass Index; D001835:Body Weight / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008607:Intellectual Disability / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D050177:Overweight / Q000503:physiopathology*; D010809:Physical Fitness / Q000502:physiology*; D055105:Waist Circumference / Q000502:physiology