Determinación de electrolitos en deportistas de 14 a 18 años de la Federación Deportiva del Cañar. 2017

Abstract

BACKGROUND.- The suitable concentration of electrolytes in the blood is vital for the osmotic balance in the organism. During physical exercise the production and the amount of sweat increases, this together with the variety of products ingested in the diet of the athletes, can jointly, lead to antagonistic answers about the metabolism relating to the plasmatic concentration of theses ions, it means that while exercising the most important plasmatic electrolytes could decrease.(1)

OBJECTIVE.- To determine the concentration of electrolytes in athletes from 14 years old to 18 years old from the Federación Deportiva del Cañar.

METHODOLOGY.- It is a cross-sectional descriptive study; the universe and sample are constituted by 180 athletes who signed an informed consent or assent. The data will be analyzed and tabulated in Microsoft Excel 2013 and SPSS 23.0 Spanish version, with results charts analyzed according to the variables: age, type of sport discipline, daily training, sodium, potassium and chlorine.

RESULTS.- The results obtained were the following: for the normal concentration of electrolytes, sodium 97,8%, potassium 82,2%, and chlorine 96,7%; masculine athletes with a predominance of 69,4%, while the age of higher prevalence was 14 years old with 38,9%; 2 hours a day training with 57,2% were the most frequent, and, the sport discipline with higher amount of athletes was boxing with 27,2%