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This study evaluated objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time among Finnish schoolaged children from grades 1 to 6 (ages 7 to 12 years) and compared the results between boys and girls, and between different age groups.
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The study population consisted of 568 Finnish boys and girls from grades 1 to 6 (mean age 9.9 years, ...
Aim The school setting as basis for physical activity (PA) interventions has been highly promoted as ideal since any benefits from such interventions targeting children from all segments of the population potentially could contribute to alleviating social inequality in health. This study relies on data from the CHAMPS-study DK which ...
Aim Some studies have analyzed the relation between sedentary behavior (SB) and body composition in children and adolescents. However most of the studies have used self-reported measures of SB and/or did not consider the potential confounding effect of physical activity in their analysis. The aim of this study was ...
Aim To examine the magnitude of associations between objectively-measured PA subcomponents and sedentary time with body composition in a large free-living population cohort of preschool children.
Methods This was a cross-sectional study of 398 preschool children recruited from the Southampton Women's Survey. PA was measured by accelerometry and body composition by ...
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The aim of this study was to compare the lifestyle of three different working classes: office clerks, blue-collar workers and farmers, and investigate whether there was a difference in physical activity and risk factors for cardiovascular diseases (CVD) between these working classes.
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162 individuals were measured for:
Body composition: ...
Aim This study was conducted to evaluate the relationship between objectively measured sedentary behavior (SB) and motor coordination in Portuguese children, accounting for physical activity, accelerometer wear time, waist-to-height ratio, and mother's education level.
Methods A cross-sectional school-based study was conducted on 213 children (110 girls and 103 boys) aged 9-10 in the ...
Aim The weather may be a barrier to physical activity but objective assessment of this hypothesis is scarce. This study evaluated the effect of temperature and rainfall on the daily physical activity of Danish preschool children. Furthermore within-day variability in physical activity was studied for both weekend and weekdays.
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The aim of this cross-sectional study was to explore relationships between motor coordination coefficient (MC), cardiorespiratory fitness (VO2max) moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and percentage of body fat (%BF) in children and adolescents from 6 to 19 years.
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108 children and adolescents (65 girls, 60.2%) from 6 schools in Porto district took ...
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The purpose of this study was to describe objectively measured physical activity (PA) levels in a rural Irish population based sample of students aged 12-14 years of age 1) during weekday and weekend time periods and 2) specific to the weight status of participants.
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One hundred and seventy four students ...
Aim Little is known of the longitudinal association between sub-clinical atherosclerosis from childhood to adolescence. Therefore, the aim was investigate the association between physical activity (PA) intensity across childhood and sub-clinical atherosclerosis in adolescence.
Methods This was a prospective study of a sample of 236 children (baseline age 8-10 y) with ...