Anthropometry does not fully explain low fitness among adults with Down syndrome.
V D Y BeckTracy BaynardElizabeth C LeffertsB A HibnerB FernhallThessa Irena Maria HilgenkampPublished in: Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR (2021)
These results suggest that the relation between anthropometry and cardiorespiratory fitness found in the general population is not the same in adults with DS and that anthropometrics do not fully explain cardiorespiratory fitness in adults with DS. Further research into potential alternative explanations is required.