![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Among the PA variables, only vigorous PA was associated with high total fatness. Similarly, those subjects who had a low or middle level (second tertile) of total PA were more likely to be overweight than those who had a high level of total PA. ResultsĬhildren and adolescents who had a low level (first tertile) of vigorous PA, were more likely to be overweight (including obesity) and to have a high-risk waist circumference, than those with a high level (third tertile) of vigorous PA. Fatness was estimated from skinfold thicknesses and dichotomized using the 85 th sex- and age-specific percentile (high/low). waist measures for predicting risk factors clustering, hereinafter called high-risk waist circumference), respectively, were used. Body mass index and waist circumference cut-off values proposed by the IOTF and the Bogalusa Heart Study (i.e. television viewing, birth weight, maternal educational level and parental overweight) with total and central adiposity. Logistic regression analyses were used to examine the associations of PA, as measured by accelerometry, and other determinants (i.e. MethodsĪ total of 557 Swedish children (9.5 ± 0.3 y) and 517 adolescents (15.6 ± 0.4 y) from the European Youth Heart Study participated in this study. ![]() The aim of this work was to study the associations of physical activity (PA) and other factors predisposing to overweight, with overweight and central adiposity in children and adolescents. ![]()
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