ArticleMedicine and science in sports and exercise2015
Motor Development and Physical Activity: A Longitudinal Discordant Twin-Pair Study.
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- Alcohol consumption at age 18-25 and number of children at a 33-year follow-up: Individual and within-pair analyses of Finnish twins.Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- A Bayesian multivariate mixture model for skewed longitudinal data with intermittent missing observations: An application to infant motor development.Biometrics · 2021Article
- Ketone body 3-hydroxybutyrate as a biomarker of aggression.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Young Children's Screen Time and Physical Activity: Perspectives of Parents and Early Care and Education Center Providers.Global pediatric health · 2019Article
- Motor performance in early life and participation in leisure-time physical activity up to age 68 years.Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology · 2018Article
- Diversity of leisure-time sport activities in adolescence as a predictor of leisure-time physical activity in adulthood.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2017Article
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Abstract
introductionPrevious longitudinal research suggests that motor proficiency in early life predicts physical activity in adulthood. Familial effects including genetic and environmental factors could explain the association, but no long-term follow-up studies have taken into account potential confounding by genetic and social family background. The present twin study investigated whether childhood motor skill development is associated with leisure-time physical activity levels in adulthood independent of family background.
methodsAltogether, 1550 twin pairs from the FinnTwin12 study and 1752 twin pairs from the FinnTwin16 study were included in the analysis. Childhood motor development was assessed by the parents' report of whether one of the co-twins had been ahead of the other in different indicators of motor skill development in childhood. Leisure-time physical activity (MET·h·d) was self-reported by the twins in young adulthood and adulthood. Statistical analyses included conditional and ordinary linear regression models within twin pairs.
resultsUsing all activity-discordant twin pairs, the within-pair difference in a sum score of motor development in childhood predicted the within-pair difference in the leisure-time physical activity level in young adulthood (P < 0.001). Within specific motor development indicators, learning to stand unaided earlier in infancy predicted higher leisure-time MET values in young adulthood statistically significantly in both samples (FinnTwin12, P = 0.02; and FinnTwin16, P = 0.001) and also in the pooled data set of the FinnTwin12 and FinnTwin16 studies (P < 0.001). Having been more agile than the co-twin as a child predicted higher leisure-time MET values up to adulthood (P = 0.03).
conclusionsMore advanced childhood motor development is associated with higher leisure-time MET values in young adulthood at least partly independent of family background in both men and women.
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