Attempts to reduce the decline in physical activity (PA) in adolescence have been the focus of many public health interventions. This study aimed to (1) determine differences in moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) levels between weekdays and weekends and (2) identify adolescents meeting current PA guidelines (PAG). To meet these objectives, 186 Thai adolescents aged 13 ...
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Physical activity declines as children enter puberty.
Leptin is cross-sectionally associated with physical activity, but there are conflicting findings on the magnitude and direction of this association.
Leptin concentrations fluctuate during puberty, and may impact energy balance.
Leptin predicts the decline in physical activity during the start of puberty ...
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The first aim was to examine the effect of the UP4FUN pilot intervention on children’s total sedentary time. The second aim was to investigate if the intervention had an effect on children’s physical activity (PA) level. Finally, we aimed to investigate demographic differences (i.e. age, ...
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Physical activity interventions in schools environment seem to have shown some effectiveness in the control of the current obesity epidemic in children. However the complexity of behaviors and the diversity of influences related to this problem suggest that we urgently need new lines of insight about how to support ...
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More studies include multiple generations of the Actigraph activity monitor. So far no studies have compared the output including the newest generation and investigated the impact on the output of the activity monitor when enabling the low frequency extension (LFE) option. The aims were to study the responses of ...
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There is an association between adiposity levels and physical activity guidelines for adolescents.
Achieving physical activity recommendations helps adolescents to prevent obesity status.
This paper presents an association between physical activity levels and obesity status.
This paper supports physical activity recommendations to avoid children's obesity levels.
This paper emphasizes ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of child and adult cut-points on physical activity (PA) intensity, the prevalence of meeting PA guidelines, and association with selected health outcomes. Participants (6,578 adults ≥ 18 years, and 3,174 children and adolescents ≤ 17 years) from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2003-06 (Centers ...
Background Current research practice employs wide-ranging accelerometer wear time criteria to identify a valid day of physical activity (PA) measurement.
Objective To evaluate the effects of varying amounts of daily accelerometer wear time on PA data.
Methods A total of 1000 days of accelerometer data from 1000 participants (age=38.7±14.3 years; body mass ...
My coeditors and I are delighted to share this special issue of the Journal of Obesity focused on understanding the comorbidity between obesity and depression. Depression is highly comorbid with obesity [1–3] and may impede weight loss treatment [4–9]. Just as a successful reduction in the obesity epidemic must entail a multilevel ...
High physical fitness in childhood and adolescence is positively associated with favourable health-related outcomes. Our aim was to examine the relationship between relatives' (father, mother, brother, sister, and best friend) physical activity engagement and encouragement on adolescents' physical fitness. Adolescents were part of the HELENA study, a multi-centre study conducted ...