Predicting Maintenance or Achievement of Healthy Weight in Children: The Impact of Changes in Physical Fitness
| Autor: | Virginia R. Chomitz, Adela Hruby, Lisa Arsenault, Aviva Must, Christina D. Economos, Jennifer M. Sacheck, Robert McGowan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
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Percentile medicine.medical_specialty Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Physical fitness Medicine (miscellaneous) Overweight Article Body Mass Index Sex Factors Endocrinology Reference Values Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio medicine Humans Muscle Strength Obesity Healthy weight Range of Motion Articular Child Exercise Nutrition and Dietetics business.industry Body Weight Odds ratio Achievement medicine.disease Confidence interval Health Physical Fitness Physical Endurance Physical therapy Female medicine.symptom business Body mass index Follow-Up Studies Demography |
| Zdroj: | Obesity. 20:1710-1717 |
| ISSN: | 1930-739X 1930-7381 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/oby.2012.13 |
| Popis: | Physical fitness is often inversely associated with adiposity in children cross-sectionally, but the effect of becoming fit or maintaining fitness over time on changes in weight status has not been well studied in children. We investigated the impact of changes in fitness over 1–4 years of follow-up on the maintenance or achievement of healthy weight among 2,793 schoolchildren who were first measured as 1st to 7th graders. Students were classified as “fit” or “underfit” according to age- and gender-specific norms in five fitness domains: endurance, agility, flexibility, upper body strength, and abdominal strength. Weight status was dichotomized by BMI percentile: “healthy weight” ( |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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