ArticleEuropean journal of applied physiology2012
Muscular fitness and clustered cardiovascular disease risk in Australian youth.
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- Muscular Fitness and Cardiometabolic Variables in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of School-Based Interventions for Improving Muscular Fitness Outcomes in Adolescent Boys: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Pooled it
- The health benefits of muscular fitness for children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2014Pooled it
- The Impact of Personalized versus Standardized Cardiorespiratory and Muscular Training on Health-Related Outcomes and Rate of Responders.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2024Trial
- Body composition, physical fitness and cardiovascular risk factors in 9-year-old children.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Lower body muscular strength as a predictor of health indicators in youth population: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Sports medicine and health science · 2026Review
- Imbalance between muscle strength development and weight gain in children and young adults in China: serial cross-sectional evidence from 1.33 million students from five successive national surveys between 2000 and 2019.The Lancet regional health. Western Pacific · 2025Article
- Childhood cardiovascular disease risk profiles based on movement phenotypes:a longitudinal cohort study.European journal of pediatrics · 2025Article
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- The association between duration of muscle exercise and psychological symptoms is higher in boys than in girls: A cross-sectional study based on Chinese college students during COVID-19.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
- Impaired Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Muscle Strength in Children with Normal-Weight Obesity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Handgrip strength attenuates the adverse effects of overweight on cardiometabolic risk factors among collegiate students but not in individuals with higher fat levels.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- The association between physical fitness and health in a nationally representative sample of Canadian children and youth aged 6 to 17 years.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2019Article
- Association of Muscular Fitness and Body Fatness with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors: The FUPRECOL Study.Nutrients · 2018Article
- Fat-to-Muscle Ratio: A New Anthropometric Indicator as a Screening Tool for Metabolic Syndrome in Young Colombian People.Nutrients · 2018Article
- Relationship between muscle strength and dyslipidemia, serum 25(OH)D, and weight status among diverse schoolchildren: a cross-sectional analysis.BMC pediatrics · 2018Article
- Association between Resting Heart Rate and Health-Related Physical Fitness in Brazilian Adolescents.BioMed research international · 2018Article
- Poor Skeletal Robustness on Lower Extremities and Weak Lean Mass Development on Upper Arm and Calf: Normal Weight Obesity in Middle-School-Aged Children (9 to 12).Frontiers in pediatrics · 2018Article
- Active travel to non-school destinations but not to school is associated with higher physical activity levels in an ethnically diverse sample of inner-city schoolchildren.BMC public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Low cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) but the association of muscular fitness phenotypes (strength, endurance and power) on CVD risk in youth has not been examined. We examined the cross-sectional association between muscular fitness phenotypes with individual and clustered CVD risk factors and determined if any potential associations are independent of CRF. Participants were 1,642 youth aged 9, 12, and 15 years from the Australian Schools Health and Fitness Survey that had muscular strength (dynamometer), power (standing long-jump), and endurance (push-ups) as well as CRF (1.6 km run-time) measured. Outcomes included established risk factors (body mass index, waist circumference, blood lipids and blood pressure) and a clustered CVD risk-score. Muscular strength, endurance, and power were inversely associated with clustered CVD risk (all P < 0.05). After adjustment for body mass index, the association remained for muscular endurance and power (all P ≤ 0.001), but not strength. Muscular power was inversely related to prevalence of clustered CVD risk (≥80th percentile) within low (P trend < 0.001), moderate (Ptrend < 0.001), and high (Ptrend = 0.001) CRF categories. Among youth, low muscular fitness levels as well as low CRF should be avoided for primary CVD prevention.
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