Impaired physical fitness in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

There are only a few studies on physical fitness in pediatric inflammatory bowel disease (PIBD). We compared physical fitness in PIBD patients versus healthy controls and analyzed the role of contributing disease- and patient-related factors.

Methods

This cross-sectional study included 73 patients with PIBD aged 13.0 (2.8) (mean [standard deviation]) years from two Finnish university hospitals, 31 with Crohn's disease and 42 with ulcerative or unclassified colitis, and 74 age- and sex-matched controls. Cardiorespiratory and neuromuscular fitness were assessed, physical activity (PA) was measured, and disease characteristics concerning physical fitness were analyzed.

Results

Cardiorespiratory fitness, that is, maximal workload (W_max/kg) and peak ox

SUBMITTER: Kantanen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12314574 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature