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ReviewObesity facts2009

Tracking of physical activity from childhood to adulthood: a review.

Risto Telama

2 registry-linked trialsAbstract readReview
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Review in Obesity facts, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 433 papers, 14 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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433citing papers in PubMed, 14 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT02375490 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2013, after this paper: background citation

A Multilevel Intervention to Increase Physical Activity and Improve Healthy Eating Among Young Children (Ages 3-5) Attending Early Childcare Centres: the Healthy Start Study

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversité de SherbrookeRan2013 to 2016Enrolled897ConditionsPediatric ObesityArmsHealthy Start
NCT07357857 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Effectiveness of the "High Five!" Program for Reducing the Risk of Overweight and Obesity in Early School-age Children

TypeinterventionalSponsorInstitute of Mother and Child, Warsaw, PolandRan2025 to 2025Enrolled659ConditionsOverweight, Childhood, Obesity Prevention, Blood PressureArmsHigh Five
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

433 citing papers in PubMed, 14 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  11. Social-Ecological Correlates of Children's Independent Mobility: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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373 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Risto TelamaLIKES Research Institute, Jyväskylä, Finland. risto.telama@sport.jyu.fi

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The aim of the article was to review studies on the tracking of physical activity in all phases of life from childhood to late adulthood. The majority of the studies have been published since 2000. The follow-up time in most studies was short, the median being 9 years. In men, the stability of physical activity was significant but low or moderate during all life phases and also in longterm follow-ups. In women, the tracking was lower and in many cases non-significant. Among both sexes, stability seems to be lower in early childhood than in adolescence or in adulthood and lower in transitional phases, such as from childhood to adolescence or from adolescence to adulthood, than in adulthood. However, the differences in the stability of physical activity between age groups and between different phases of life were small. The number of tracking studies utilising objective methods to measure physical activity was so small that systematic differences in stability between self-report and objective methods could not be determined. A factor which caused differences in tracking results was the adjustment of correlations for measurement error and other error variance. Adjusted coefficients were clearly higher than unadjusted ones. However, adjustment was done only in very few studies. If the different methods used for estimating habitual physical activity and the failure to control for important covariates in studies of tracking are taken into account, physical activity appears to track reasonably well also in the longer term, for example from adolescence to adulthood. The results of the tracking studies support the idea that the enhancement of physical activity in children and adolescents is of great importance for the promotion of public health.

Indexed as

Motor ActivityPublic HealthSurveys and QuestionnairesAdultChildHealth PromotionHumansObesity

Identifiers

PMID20054224
PMCPMC6516203

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Registered trials

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