Health-Related Physical Fitness in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease vs Healthy Control Subjects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) may negatively affect health-related physical fitness. However, the development of interventions to improve health-related physical fitness and thereby disease outcomes is hindered by insufficient evidence. This study compared health-related physical fitness between patients with IBD and healthy control subjects, examined associations with disease and treatment characteristics, and explored patients' perspectives.

Methods

In this cross-sectional study, 105 patients with IBD and 102 age- and sex-matched healthy control subjects performed validated tests for body fat (4-site skinfold thickness), cardiorespiratory fitness (steep ramp test), muscular strength (steep ramp test, 60-second sit-to-stand test, hand-held dynamometry), muscul

SUBMITTER: Demers K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12688079 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature