The purpose of the study is to examine the associations of youth physical activity and screen time with weight status and cardiorespiratory fitness in children and adolescents, separately, utilizing a nationally representative sample. A total of 1,113 participants (692 children aged 6-11 yrs; 422 adolescents aged 12-15 yrs) from the 2012 NHANES National Youth Fitness Survey. Participants comple...

BACKGROUND Early obesity and its transfer to the adulthood, increases likelihood incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD). ATP-binding cassette transporter (ABCA1) as a member of the ABC transporters family plays a crucial role in reverse cholesterol transport and CAD prevention. OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to investigate ABCA1 expression in lymphocytes, plasma apolipoprotein A-I and ...

Background. Given the cardiovascular disease (CVD) related importance of understanding the true effects of exercise on adiposity in overweight and obese children and adolescents, this study examined whether there is evidential value to rule out excessive and inappropriate reporting of statistically significant results, a major problem in the published literature, with respect to exercise-induce...

BACKGROUND Childhood and adolescent obesity has increased dramatically over the past 25 years in Australia. Currently over 20% of Australian children are overweight or obese. The National Health and Medical Research Council has recently developed the 'Clinical practice guidelines for the management of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents'. OBJECTIVE This article discusses the as...

We evaluate the influence of demographic, socioeconomic, and maternal variables on the nutritional status of adolescents aged 11 years. We conducted a prospective cohort study including 4,452 adolescents born in Pelotas, Southern Brazil, in 1993, accounting for 87.5% of the original cohort. Nutritional status was evaluated based on World Health Organization criteria. Subjects were classified ac...

INTRODUCTION Changes in lifestyle and diet have led to a progressive increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity. This disorder can lead to significant physical and psychosocial effects that affect the health related quality of life (HRQOL). Adolescence is a time of great vulnerability and very decisive in personality development. The objective of this study was to assess the influence...

Gymnastics is a sport that affects the BMI and physical fitness of overweight obese adolescents. Overweight obesity occur due to an imbalance in energy intake expenditure decrease activity, which can cause adolescent health problems. This study aims analyze effect gymnastics on changes The research design quasi-experimental pre-post intervention study. was conducted at 2nd 3rd State Junior High...

background: because prehypertension identifies children most at risk for the development of future hypertensive disease, the purpose of this study was, to examine the association of prehypertension with risk factors for cardiovascular disease (cvd) in a large sample of youths participating in the community-based prevention education program family heart study. methods: we estimated blood pressu...