Purpose Understanding fluctuations in lifestyle indicators is important to identify relevant time periods to intervene in order to promote a healthy lifestyle; however, objective assessment of multiple lifestyle indicators has never been done using a repeated-measures design. The primary aim was, therefore, to examine between-season and within-week variation in physical ...
Introduction In order to obtain accurate estimates of sedentary time and physical activity in young children objective methods are needed. Wrist worn accelerometers have shown good feasibility among participants in previous studies. The acceleration signal collected by many commercially available activity monitors is usually summarized in an arbitrary unit (counts). ...
Purpose An active lifestyle is crucial for co-morbidity prevention in pediatric cardiac transplant patients(CTxP). The purpose of this study was to evaluate daily physical activity in CTxP and to identify relationships between anthropometric measurements, cardiac function and physical activity habits.
Methods Anthropometric measures and resting 2D echocardiograms were obtained. ...
Purpose:
Studies estimating the contribution of physical
activity (PA) to the development of body mass index (BMI) in
critical periods of childhood are warranted. Therefore, we
have prospectively investigated this relationship in boys and
girls of the KOALA Birth Cohort study, the Netherlands, in the
period around adiposity rebound (i....
Purpose To describe the physical activity levels and sedentary behavior of toddlers from Ventura County, California
Methods Physical activity and sedentary behavior was measured in twenty three- (10 boys, 13 girls) toddlers (n= 22 toddlers, mean age 1.65 ± 0.49) using the Actigraph GT1M (Pensacola, Florida). GT1m’s were worn for a minimum of 6 ...
Sedentary behaviour (SB), which is characterized by the absence or low physical
movement (e.g. sitting or watching TV) and by low energy expenditure (≤1.5 METs),
has been associated with detrimental health effects, such as body fatness.
Purpose To examine the bi-directional associations between objective measures of
SB and moderate-to-vigorous physical ...
Physical activity can benefit the health of youth with Type 1 diabetes. Despite the
benefits some studies have found patients do not always meet the physical activity
recommendation of 60 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) per
day. Physical activity and sedentary behaviour have not been measured previously in
Scottish youth with ...
Results from several objective monitoring studies suggest that children’s physical
activity (PA) patterns may change across seasons; however, it is not well understood
how PA patterns in the childcare setting may change across seasons.
Purpose To prospectively track preschoolers’ PA patterns during childcare while
investigating for seasonal differences in ...
Purpose To determine the effect of implementing the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care (NAPSACC) program on objectively measured physical activity during the school day in twenty-six licensed daycare centers throughout Louisiana randomized to either treatment (intervention; N=13) or control (no intervention; N = 13) conditions. Subjects: Pre-school children, 3...
Introduction:
Experts recommend children spend more time playing outdoors. The ambient light sensor of the ActiGraph GT3X+ provides lux measurements. A lux is the International System’s unit of illumination, equivalent to one lumen per square meter. Few studies have established a lux threshold for determining whether a child ...