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0000-0003-3780-6545
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University of Maia
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Instituto Politécnico do Porto
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Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-08-2021
DOI: 10.1080/02640414.2021.1964749
Abstract: Investigation into correlates across all levels of the socio-ecological model predictive of objectively measured physical activity has rarely been assessed in adults. While considering a ersity of correlates, we determined which correlates best predict sensor-based moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary-time (ST) in adults. A Chi-squared Automatic Interaction Detection algorithm was used to hierarchize the correlates associated with high ST (≥66.6
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 16-12-2021
DOI: 10.1111/CPF.12735
Abstract: Promoting youth sports participation is an excellent strategy to improve health and high‐level sports competition around the world. The aim of this study was to analyse the potential of commonly used physical‐fitness (PF) tests to discriminate against athletes from non‐athletes in young populations. One thousand eight hundred and thirty‐one youth people were analysed (boys: 514 non‐athletes and 401 athletes girls: 722 non‐athletes and 194 athletes) aged 10–18 years (y). Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), muscular fitness (MF), agility and speed were tested using PF tests. Application of receiver operating characteristics curves was used to assess the discriminatory potential of each PF for distinguishing athletes from non‐athletes, with an area under the curve (AUC) higher than 65% (0.65). In the oldest groups (≥16 y), the speed test at 20 m in boys (AUC = 0.70) and horizontal jump test in girls (AUC = 0.75) were the best discriminators, while the push‐up‐test (AUC 10–11 y boys = 0.68, AUC 14–15 y boys = 0.68, AUC 10–11 y girls = 0.73, AUC 12–13 y girls = 0.87) and the PACER (AUC boys: 12–13 y = 0.68 and AUC girls 14–15 y = 0.73) appeared to be better discriminators than other PF tests, for the younger age‐groups. The speed‐test at 20 m and the horizontal‐jump were the best PF to identify older adolescents with athletic potential, while the PACER and push‐up tests were the most discriminatory for the younger adolescents.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-02-2023
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 05-08-2020
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-10-2020
DOI: 10.1002/AJHB.23522
Abstract: Physical fitness (PF) and physical activity (PA) are inversely associated with body mass index and waist circumference (WC), whereas sedentary time (ST) seems to boost obesity in youth. The aim was to examine the associations of each selected PF test, PA‐related exposures, and specific ST patterns with obesity and determine the most relevant ones, in a large s le of a school‐aged adolescent. The s le consisted of 2696 Portuguese youth aged 10 to 18 years. Height, weight, and WC were measured. PA and ST components were measured using accelerometry. PF was evaluated using a battery of tests. The Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER) and push‐up tests seemed to be the exposures that presented the strongest and more consistent associations with obesity, independent of PA/ST profiles ( P .05). The second exposure of relevance for adolescent obesity level was the breaks in ST with a negative relationship regardless of PA/PF profiles ( P .05). Finally, ST accumulated in periods of minutes, and moderate‐to‐vigorous PA were favorably associated with obesity, independent of ST/PF. Independent of PA and ST, cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), measured by PACER, was associated with obesity markers. This may be in part due to the dependence of PACER performance on adiposity. Also, limiting prolonged ST and promoting interruptions in this behavior were associated with obesity. These associations suggest that future research should examine other strategies beyond PA promotion for tackling obesity that consider CRF and breaking ST.
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 06-2019
Location: Portugal
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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