ABSTRACT
In recent decades, atherosclerotic disease (AD) has been among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and given its multifactorial trait, both its progression and severity is closely related to the presence and duration of a series of attributes called risk factors (Berenson et al., 1998; Gerber and Zielinsky, 1997). With the exception of age, the dyslipidaemia characterized by a condition in which there is an abnormal lipid or lipoprotein concentration in the blood, is the most important risk factor for the development of atherosclerosis (Rabelo, 2001). It should be noted, however, that similar to other risk factors, the dyslipidaemia is often behavioural and therefore may be influenced the lifestyle adopted. Accordingly, the presence or absence of dyslipidaemia may be related to levels of physical activity (Kones, 2011). From this perspective, the objective of this study was to evaluate whether changes in lipid profiles differ between adolescents classified as physically active or insufficiently active.
