ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2004
Fitness and physical activity in children with asthma.
Review in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 79 citations in OpenAlex.
- Brazilian Guideline for Exercise Testing in Children and Adolescents - 2024.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2024Guideline
- Factors affecting maximal oxygen uptake in prepubertal children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Can physical exercise assist in controlling and reducing the severity of exercise-induced bronchospasm in children and adolescents? A systematic review.The clinical respiratory journal · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of exercise training on airway hyperreactivity in asthma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2013Pooled it
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- Encouraging physical activity in pediatric asthma: a case-control study of the wonders of walking (WOW) program.Pediatric pulmonology · 2009Trial
- Functional Exercise Capacity and Exploratory ICF-Aligned Interpretation of the Incremental Shuttle Walk Test in Children With Asthma.Pediatric pulmonology · 2026Article
- Assessment of the Physical Activity of Children with Asthma Bronchiale.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- A Meta-Analysis of Sampled Maximal Aerobic Capacity Data for Boys Aged 11 Years Old or Less Obtained by Cycle Ergometry.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Epinephrine evokes shortening of human airway smooth muscle cells following βAmerican journal of physiology. Lung cellular and molecular physiology · 2022Article
- Physical activity in asthma control and its immune modulatory effect in asthmatic preschoolers.Allergy · 2022Article
- Can long-term regular physical activity improve health outcomes among adults with asthma-evidence from a systematic review and Bayesian meta-analysis.Annals of translational medicine · 2022Article
- The Association between Vigorous Physical Activity and Stress in Adolescents with Asthma.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Do Urban Minority Parents and Children Agree on Asthma Symptoms with Exercise, Worries, and Confidence in Disease Management?Academic pediatrics · 2019Article
- Factors associated with in-school physical activity among urban children with asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2018Article
- Parental Perspectives of Barriers to Physical Activity in Urban Schoolchildren With Asthma.Academic pediatrics · 2018Article
- Association of exercise-induced wheeze and other asthma symptoms with emergency department visits and hospitalizations in a large cohort of urban adolescents.Respiratory medicine · 2018Article
- Exploring the Association Between Self-Reported Asthma Impact and Fitbit-Derived Sleep Quality and Physical Activity Measures in Adolescents.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2017Article
- Relationships among obesity, physical activity and sedentary behavior in young adolescents with and without lifetime asthma.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2016Article
- In-school asthma management and physical activity: children's perspectives.The Journal of asthma : official journal of the Association for the Care of Asthma · 2014Article
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Asthma remains the most common chronic disease in childhood, reportedly affecting up to 25% of children in Western urban environmental settings. There seems to be a common perception that asthmatic children have a reduced capacity for exercise. Surprisingly, there is conflicting evidence in the literature in relation to this position. In this review, we present an overview of the literature in which habitual physical activity and fitness levels, including aerobic fitness, of asthmatic and non-asthmatic children are compared. There is contradictory evidence regarding the aerobic fitness levels of asthmatic children and adolescents, and it remains unclear whether significant differences exist between asthmatic children and their non-asthmatic counterparts. There is limited information concerning the relative anaerobic fitness of asthmatic children and adolescents; however, this is also conflicting. During childhood and adolescence, asthmatic individuals seem to have physical activity levels comparable with those of the normal paediatric population. However, differences in physical activity levels may develop during the time of maturation from adolescence into adulthood. Accordingly, it is not possible to establish a definitive conclusion about the issue in either children or adults. Further research with well designed methodologies is needed in order to determine whether asthmatic children and adolescents have different aerobic fitness, anaerobic fitness and physical activity levels when compared with the normal paediatric population.
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