ADAPTATION ABILITIES IN FEMALE STUDENTS WITH CARDIOVASCULAR DISORDERS

engaged in physical education lessons in a special medical group (SMG). The experimental group consisted of 76 students with cardiovascular disorders. The control group included 48 apparently healthy students practicing physical education in the general group. We assessed adaptation abilities with the help of salivary cortisol, maximum oxygen consumption, adaptation potential of the circulatory system, and individual minute. Results. We revealed a tendency towards health deterioration and pathology acquisition during the study at university. We established the groups of the most frequent disorders, including the disorders of the cardiovascular system, which predominantly occur in girls. As a result of the study, we revealed that female students with cardiovascular disorders were to a greater extent subjected to external stress factors and demonstrated a significant increase (P < 0.01) in cortisol (189 ± 5.21) in comparison to apparently healthy students (159.64 ± 8.21). Conclusions. All the groups examined demonstrated deterioration of the leading adaptation systems during the study at University. The most pronounced changes were registered in maximum oxygen consumption and adaptation potential of the circulatory system in female students with cardiovascular disorders.