ArticleInternational journal of obesity (2005)2016
The role of fatness on physical fitness in adolescents with and without Down syndrome: The UP&DOWN study.
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- Aerobic Training for Obesity Management in Individuals with Down Syndrome: A Bibliometric and Meta-Analyses.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The Effects of Prescribed Physical and Cognitive Exercise on Life Satisfaction, Self-Efficacy and Mood States in Adults with Down Syndrome: The MinDSets Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Intrapersonal, interpersonal and environmental correlates of moderate to vigorous physical activity and sedentary time in adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities.Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR · 2022Article
- Weight management recommendations for youth with Down syndrome: Expert recommendations.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Is fatness or fitness key for survival in older adults with intellectual disabilities?Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID · 2020Article
- The promotion of physical activity for the prevention of Alzheimer's disease in adults with Down Syndrome: Rationale and design for a 12 Month randomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2020Article
- Individual and family-based approaches to increase physical activity in adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities: Rationale and design for an 18 month randomized trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2019Article
- Associations between domains of physical literacy by weight status in 8- to 12-year-old Canadian children.BMC public health · 2018Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesAdolescents with Down syndrome (DS) exhibit higher levels of fatness and low levels of physical fitness compared with those without DS. In adolescents without DS, fatness is tightly associated with physical fitness, but this association is unclear in adolescents with DS. The aim of this study was to examine the association between several markers of fatness and physical fitness in a relative large sample of adolescents with and without DS. SUBJECTS/
methodsA total of 111 adolescents with DS (41 females) aged 11-20 years participated in this cross-sectional study. We also included a sex-matched control group (ratio 1:2) of 222 adolescents without DS aged 12-18 years, participating in the UP&DOWN Study. The Assessing Level of Physical Activity (ALPHA) health-related fitness test battery for adolescents was used to assess fatness and physical fitness.
resultsOur results show that fatness is not associated with low levels of physical fitness in adolescents with DS (that is, 3 of the 16 analyses identified differences in physical fitness variables by groups of fatness). In contrast, fatness, as expected, is associated with levels of physical fitness in adolescents without DS (that is, 13 of the 16 analyses identified differences in physical fitness variables by groups of fatness).
conclusionsThe present finding contributes to new knowledge by suggesting that the role of fatness on physical fitness is different in adolescents with and without DS, and consequently, the poor levels of physical fitness in adolescents with DS may be due to the syndrome rather than the high prevalence of obesity from this population.
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