Replacing school and out-of-school sedentary behaviors with physical activity and its associations with adiposity in children and adolescents: a compositional isotemporal substitution analysis

Autor: Aleš Gába, Jan Dygrýn, Nikola Štefelová, Lukáš Rubín, Karel Hron, Lukáš Jakubec
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, Vol 26, Iss 1, Pp 1-9 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1342-078X
1347-4715
DOI: 10.1186/s12199-021-00932-6
Popis: Abstract Background Little is known on how context-specific sedentary behaviors (SB) affect adiposity. This study aimed to investigate compositional associations between context-specific SB and adiposity and estimate the differences in adiposity associated with replacing school and out-of-school SB with physical activity (PA). Methods This study included 336 children and adolescents. Time spent in SB and PA was estimated using multi-day 24-hour raw accelerometer data. SB and PA were specified for school and out-of-school times. Fat mass percentage (FM%) and fat mass index (FMI) were used as adiposity indicators. A compositional isotemporal substitution model was used to estimate differences in adiposity associated with one-to-one reallocations of time from context-specific SB to PA. Results Participants spent approximately two thirds of their school and out-of-school time being sedentary. Relative to the remaining 24-h movement behaviors, significant associations between out-of-school SB and adiposity were found in both boys (β ilr1 = 0.63, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.03–1.22 for FM%; β ilr1 = 0.76, 95% CI = 0.03–1.49 for FMI) and girls (β ilr1 = 0.62, 95% CI = 0.25–0.98 for FM%; β ilr1 = 0.80, 95% CI = 0.28–1.32 for FMI). Replacing 30 min/day of out-of-school SB with out-of-school light PA decreased FM% by 10.1% (95% CI = 3.3–17.9) and FMI by 14% (95% CI = 2.7–24) in girls. No significant associations were found for school SB. Conclusions A reduction of out-of-school SB in favor of light PA should be advocated as an appropriate target for interventions and strategies to prevent childhood obesity.
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