Ramírez Vélez, RobinsonCorrea Bautista, Jorge EnriqueRamos Sepúlveda, Jeison AlexanderPiñeros Álvarez, Carlos AndrésGiraldo, Lorena IsabelIzquierdo Redín, MikelGarcía Hermoso, AntonioRodríguez Rodríguez, FernandoCristi Montero, Carlos2018-09-052018-09-0520171824-728810.1186/s13052-017-0347-yhttps://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/30504Background: Several studies indicates that children’s aerobic capacity levels are predictors of the future risk of non-communicable diseases. Therefore, the aim of this study was to establish the proportion of subjects whose aerobic capacity is indicative of future cardiovascular risk in Indian-Nasa community from a low-income area in Cauca, Colombia. Methods: We performed a cross-sectional analysis of morphological component (height, weight, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, triceps skinfold, subscapular skinfold, and body fat percent [BF%]), and the cardiorespiratory component (course-navette 20 m, shuttle run test and estimation of maximal oxygen consumption by indirect VO2max) from 576 participants (319 boys and 257 girls) aged 10 to 17.9 years, using the standardized FUPRECOL test battery. Results: We showed that the boys performed better than the girls in cardiorespiratory fitness. The proportion of subjects with an aerobic capacity indicative of future cardiovascular risk was 7.3%. By sex, 3.8% of boys and 11.7% of girls (X2 p = 0.001) displayed an unhealthy aerobic capacity in this study. Conclusion: The findings of this study that provide the first data on aerobic capacity health for Colombian Nasa Indian children and adolescents aged 10–17.9 years. Although the known loss of aerobic capacity is a serious consequence of the future risk of non-communicable diseases, the deterioration of physical fitness deserves increased attention among indigenous population.8 p.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Physical fitnessAerobic fitnessCardiorespiratory fitnessRisk factorsChronic diseasesCardiometabolic healthIndigenousinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess