The impact of sport-discipline and sex on physical fitness and bone markers in athletes

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Nebigh, Ammar | Touhami, Imed | Chtara, Moktar | Govindasamy, Karuppasamy | Suresh, Chandrababu | El Hage, Rawad | Saeidi, Ayoub | Boullosa, Daniel | Clark, Cain C. T. | Granacher, Urs | Zouhal, Hassane

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International audience. This study was performed to determine the impact of sex and sport-discipline on physical fitness and bone markers in young sub-elite track and field athletes. One hundred and forty-four track and field sub-elite athletes (78 males aged 17.8±1.6 years; 66 females aged 17.2±1.9 years) volunteered to participate in this study and were categorized according to their disciplines in endurance (EG: n=67) or power athletes (PG: n=77). A significant main effect of sex was observed for C-telopeptide type I collagen (CTx) (F=11.37; p<0.001; η2=0.10, moderate), for osteocalcin (OC) (F=8.58; p<0.004; η2=0.09, moderate) and for N-terminal propeptide of procollagen type I (PINP) (F=7.96; p<0.05; η2=0.07, moderate). The average CTx, OC and P1NP levels were significantly higher in males compared with females (0.05

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