Abstract            Volume:13  Issue-8  Year-2025         Original Research Articles

Online ISSN : 2347 - 3215 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcret@gmail.com

The impact of physical activity and sport on people with anaemia is an important subject for study. The aim of our research is to compare the cardiac recovery of anaemic girls with that of healthy girls after the Ruffier-Dickson test. This study was carried out on 26 female students from one Senegalese high school, aged between 17 and 20, who regularly took part in Physical Education and Sport (PE) classes. The sample was divided into two groups: an experimental group of 13 anaemic girls and a control group of 13 healthy girls. The protocol consisted of measuring their heart rate at rest, administering the Ruffier-Dickson test, then recording their heart rate immediately after exercise, as well as every minute of recovery up to the fifth minute. The mean values of the variables measured during the three phases of the protocol were compared. There was a statistically significant difference between the mean values of heart rate measured at rest, immediately after the Ruffier-Dickson test, and after each minute of recovery. Percentage changes in the rate of change of average heart rates show that anaemic girls show a -57% decrease at the fifth minute of recovery, while healthy girls show a -77% decrease at the same time. Our study shows that anaemic secondary school girls recover less quickly than their healthy counterparts after the Ruffier-Dickson test.

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