ArticlePediatric exercise science2013
Objectively measured sedentary time, physical activity and markers of body fat in preschool children.
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- Systematic review of the relationships between sedentary behaviour and health indicators in the early years (0-4 years).BMC public health · 2017Pooled it
- Systematic review of the relationships between physical activity and health indicators in the early years (0-4 years).BMC public health · 2017Pooled it
- Physical activity intensity, sedentary behavior, body composition and physical fitness in 4-year-old children: results from the ministop trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2016Trial
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- Longitudinal Relationships of Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, Cardiorespiratory Fitness, and Muscular Fitness with Body Fatness in Preschoolers.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Relation between Demographics and Physical Activity among Preschoolers Attending Head Start.Journal of child and family studies · 2022Article
- Association of physical activity with adiposity in preschoolers using different clinical adiposity measures: a cross-sectional study.BMC pediatrics · 2019Article
- Additive quantile regression for clustered data with an application to children's physical activity.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics · 2019Article
- Greenspace, physical activity, and BMI in children from two cities in northern Mexico.Preventive medicine reports · 2019Article
- Feasibility and Efficacy of a Parent-Focused, Text Message-Delivered Intervention to Reduce Sedentary Behavior in 2- to 4-Year-Old Children (Mini Movers): Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2018Article
- Evaluating and Refining the Conceptual Model Used in the Study of Health and Activity in Preschool Environments (SHAPES) Intervention.Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education · 2017Article
- Cross-sectional associations between sleep duration, sedentary time, physical activity, and adiposity indicators among Canadian preschool-aged children using compositional analyses.BMC public health · 2017Article
- Secular Changes of Adiposity in Czech Children Aged from 3 to 6 Years: Latent Obesity in Preschool Age.BioMed research international · 2017Article
- In-school and Out-of-school Physical Activity in Preschool Children.Journal of physical activity & health · 2016Article
- Physical activity in preschool children: comparison between Montessori and traditional preschools.The Journal of school health · 2014Article
- Use of quantile regression to investigate the longitudinal association between physical activity and body mass index.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2014Observational
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Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between sedentary behavior and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA), measured by accelerometry, with body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference in 357 preschool children. Linear mixed models were used adjusting for race/ethnicity, parental education, and preschool. Follow-up analyses were performed using quantile regression. Among boys, MVPA was positively associated with BMI z-score (b = 0.080, p = .04) but not with waist circumference; quantile regression showed that MVPA was positively associated with BMI z-score at the 50th percentile (b = 0.097, p < .05). Among girls, no associations were observed between sedentary behavior and MVPA in relation to mean BMI z-score and mean waist circumference. Quantile regression indicated that, among girls at the 90th waist circumference percentile, a positive association was found with sedentary behavior (b = 0.441, p < .05), and a negative association was observed with MVPA (b = -0.599, p < .05); no associations were found with BMI z-score. In conclusion, MVPA was positively associated with BMI z-score among boys, and MVPA was negatively associated and sedentary behavior was positively associated with waist circumference among girls at the 90th percentile.
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