Cognitive-linguistic skills and their relationship with respiratory characteristics/Habilidades cognitivo-linguisticas e sua relacao com caracteristicas respiratorias

Purpose: to relate respiratory characteristics with cognitive-linguistic skills performance of children from a public school of the region of Belo Horizonte. Method: a cross-sectional, observational and descriptive study. From the 180 enrolled children, 131 met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. We evaluated 66 children in the 4th grade and 65 children in the 3rd grade of the elementary education, from both genders, with ages going between nine and ten year old. We utilized a questionnaire for assessment of respiratory characteristics and a previously published protocol and adapted to the Brazilian population in order to assess the cognitive-linguistic skills. Data were analyzed using the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal Wallis test at a significance level of 1%. Results: there was not observed a p-value