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Comparison the Prevalence and Severity of Dysmenorrhea Among Athletes and Non-Athletes and its Relation with Body Composition

Saeideh Mojarrad Ezbarami, Bahman Mirzaei , Fahimeh Esfarjani ,
Volume 16, Issue 11 (2-2014)

Abstract

Background: Primary dysmenorrhea is chronic cyclical pelvic pain associated with menstruation in absence of an identifiable pathological condition. The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence and severity of dysmenorrhea among athletes and non-athlete girls and its relation with body composition.

Materials and Methods: In this cross sectional study 223 healthy students aging 20-30 years old from Guilan university randomly divided to two groups (72 athletes and 151 non-athletes). The athletes group engaged in regular physical activity for at least one year, three sessions a week and the non-athletes group were not engaged in any sports activity. Data were collected by questionnaire and anthropometric measurements.

Results: The prevalence of dysmenorrhea was lower in athletes than non-athletes group (61.1% vs. 88.8%, p<0.001). A significant difference was observed in mood symptoms, physical symptoms and severity of pain between two groups (p<0.05). Also there was statistically significant relationship between body fat and physical symptoms of dysmenorrhea in both groups. However, no statistically significant relationship was observed between physical symptoms of dysmenorrhea, BMI and WHR.

Conclusion: It seems that performing regular exercise can be used as a preventing, treating or supplementary method in control of the early dysmenorrhea.

The Effect of PPARα Gene Polymorphism on Some Athletic Performances of Non-Athletic 10-12 Year-Old Boys of Marand

Hamed Abbasi Soltani, Farzad Zehsaz,
Volume 21, Issue 5 (10-2018)

Abstract

Background and Aim: one of the key concepts in physical education and sport science is the process of talent identification. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of PPARα gene polymorphism on some of the athletic performances of non-athlete 10-12-year-old children.
Materials and Methods: The present project was carried out in the form of semi-experimental and field-based research with salivary sampling. To determine the polymorphism of the genes, the methods used included saliva sampling, salvary DNA extraction and PCR-RFLP method and exercise tests included the Shuttle run, standing broad jump and 20m sprint. Our subjects consisted of 118 non-athletic healthy boys of Marand from 10 to 12 years old. After comparison with Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium, frequency of genotype was tested with Leven, Fisher and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests. Using one-way covariance analysis, the mean group phenotypes was compared with each other. Type of polymorphism as a predestine variable and the athletic performances of 20m shuttle run, standing broad jump and 20m sprint test were considered as the criterion variable. All analyzes were performed by SPSS 22.
Findings: The results showed that the subjects with PPARα gene GG polymorphism had better performance in the endurance tests than subjects with CC and GC polymorphism.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that GG polymorphism is related to the endurance activities, but CC and GC polymorphisms do not have a particular predominance in the endurance, speed and power activities.

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