2022-04-122022-04-122014ANTUNES, Priscilla de Cesaro; SILVA, Ana Márcia. A produção científica brasileira e a problematização acerca da meia idade: um estudo a partir dos periódicos do campo da Educação Física. Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre o Envelhecimento, Porto Alegre, v. 19, n. 1, p. 10-26, 2014.1517-2473e- 2316-2171http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/20596The purpose of this study was to present an overview of the scientific production in Physical Education, focusing on the life moment identi fied as middle-age. 18 Brazilian journals related to the area were analyzed between 2000 and 2010, from which 79 articles focusing middle age were selected. The hypothesis was that this theme is poorly explored, seen that the selected articles represented only 2% of the 3.941 articles published in this period. It was observed, predominately, that: studies were field researches, conducted with women, in a large age interval; themes were physical fitness, diseases/risk factors, tests/equations validations, adhesion/motiva tion for exercise, sport, aging conception, special needs, sociability and retirement. The analysis suggested that these themes were treated from a biological perspective, and middle-age was character ized as a decline moment with physiological changes in the organism that bring life damages; authors have used references about old age to analyze/reflect data about middle-age, and disease, more than health, was the central parameter for the analyzed studies.porAcesso AbertoMiddle-ageMeia-idadeAdultPhysical EducationAdultoEducação FísicaArtigohttps://doi.org/10.22456/2316-2171.20196