Vasileios T Stavrou, Kyriaki Astara, Konstantinos N Tourlakopoulos, Zoe Daniil, Konstantinos I Gourgoulianis, Konstantinos Kalabakas, Dimitrios Karagiannis, George Basdekis
The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of sleep quality in cognitive domains of perceptual ability after exhausting exercise in adolescent and adult athletes. Eighty-six male professional soccer players were included in our study and divided into two groups: adolescents (age: 17.3 ± 0.2 yrs, body mass: 68.9 ± 7.9 kg, body fat: 9.9 ± 3.6 %) versus adults (age: 26.3 ± 5.2 yrs, body mass: 76.5 ± 7.2 kg, body fat: 10.3 ± 3.1 %). For each athlete, prior to cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET), anthropometric and morphological characteristics were recorded and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) questionnaire was answered...
2021: Journal of Sports Medicine (Hindawi Publishing Corporation)