Analysis epidemic status of the physical endurance among Chinese students aged 7-18 years of five ethnic minorities in 2014

Objective To explore the physical endurance among Chinese students of five ethnic minorities aged 7-18 years,and to provide a scientific basis for making interventional measures and improving their endurance.Methods Students aged 7-18 years from Mongolian,Hui,Uygur,Zhuang and Korean ethnic minorities were selected to participate in the 2014 Chinese National Survey on Students' Constitution and Health.The mean and standard deviation of the endurance running time of same gender and age were used to calculate Z score.Good physical endurance was defined as endurance running time ≤P25 of same gender and age.Results The endurance running time of boys aged 7-12 was between 120.7 s and 132.4 s,the girls' was between 126.4 s and 143.7 s.Among the five ethnic minorities,Mongolian students ranked the last both in boys and girls and Uygur students ranked the first both in boys and girls(P<0.05).The endurance running time of boys aged 13-15 was between 272.3 s and 309.1 s,the girls' was between 257.3 s and 286.4 s,and among the five ethnic minorities,Mongolian students ranked the last both in boys and girls Zhuang students ranked the first in boys and Uygur students ranked the first in girls(P<0.05).The endurance running time ot boys aged 16-18 was between 251.1 s to 282.7 s,the girls' was between 251.5 s to 271.7 s,among the five ethnic minorities Mongolian students ranked the last in boys,Hui students ranked the last in girls and Korean students ranked the first both in boys and girls(P<0.05).The Z score of five ethnic minorities was between-0.29 and 0.30 in boys,Mongolian