Controlled study of the influence of physical activity over some risk parameters indicators of chronic diseases in male individuals with paraplegia

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare some biochemical parameters, the nutritional assessment and the risk indicatives of chronic diseases in spinal cord injury subjects, with ages between 18 and 45 years old. For that, 28 subjects were assessed, divided in two groups: athletes (EX, n=16) and sedentary (SED, n=12). For the analysis, it was used the evaluation of food intake, body composition and some biochemical parameters which were compared through the t-student test for independent variables, assuming as significative the value of a < 0,05. The sedentary group showed a tendency of overweight, the plasmatic glucose was related to the adiposity, however, there was no difference between the estimation of basal energetic expenditure and the caloric intake, that suggests alteration of the energetic needs. Both groups presented decrease of plasmatic HDL-C and it was observed an unbalance in the macronutrients intake. It was concluded that the predictive equations of basal energetic expenditure overestimate the values for spinal cord injured people, mainly for the sedentary group. The diet adequation must be established independent of the presence of risk factors. Future studies could establish assessment protocols for that group of subjects. While this does not happen, the assessment methods continue incomplete and uncertain