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Trial reportNutrients2016

Associations of Fat Mass and Fat-Free Mass with Physical Fitness in 4-Year-Old Children: Results from the MINISTOP Trial.

Pontus Henriksson, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez, Marja H Leppänen, Christine Delisle Nyström, Francisco B Ortega, Jeremy Pomeroy, Jonatan R Ruiz, Marie Löf

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Trial report in Nutrients, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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30citing papers in PubMed, 1 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

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 65 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 5 institutions in 4 countries.

Pontus HenrikssonPROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity Research Group (PROFITH), Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. pontus.tm.henriksson@gmail.com.
Cristina Cadenas-SanchezPROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity Research Group (PROFITH), Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. cristina.cadenas.sanchez@gmail.com.
Marja H LeppänenDepartment of Health Sciences, University of Jyvaskyla, 40014 Jyvaskyla, Finland. marja.h.leppanen@gmail.com.
Christine Delisle NyströmDepartment of Biosciences and Nutrition, Karolinska Institutet, 141 83 Huddinge, Sweden. christine.delisle.nystrom@ki.se.
Francisco B OrtegaPROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity Research Group (PROFITH), Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. ortegaf@ugr.es.
Jeremy PomeroyMarshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, WI 54449, USA. pomeroy.jeremy@mcrf.mfldclin.edu.
Jonatan R RuizPROmoting FITness and Health through Physical Activity Research Group (PROFITH), Department of Physical Education and Sport, Faculty of Sport Sciences, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain. ruizj@ugr.es.
Marie LöfDepartment of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Faculty of Health Science, Linköping University, 581 53 Linköping, Sweden. marie.lof@ki.se.
Universidad de Granada · ESLinköping University · SEKarolinska Institutet · SEMarshfield Clinic · USUniversity of Jyväskylä · FI

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physical fitness is a powerful marker of health in youth. Studies in adolescents and adults suggest that higher fat mass is related to worse physical fitness. However, there is limited knowledge whether fat mass and fat-free mass are associated with physical fitness already in preschoolers. Baseline data from the MINISTOP (Mobile-based INtervention Intended to STop Obesity in Preschoolers) trial was utilized for this cross-sectional analysis. Body composition was assessed using air-displacement plethysmography. Fat mass index [fat mass (kg)/height² (m)] and fat-free mass index [fat-free mass (kg)/height² (m)] were used to provide height-adjusted measures of body composition. Physical fitness was measured using the PREFIT (FITness testing in PREschool children) battery, which assesses cardiorespiratory fitness, upper-body and lower-body muscular strength as well as motor fitness. In total, this study included 303 children (168 boys and 135 girls), who were on average 4.48 ± 0.15 years old. Higher fat mass index was associated with worse cardiorespiratory fitness (standardized β = -0.17, p = 0.002), lower-body muscular strength (β = -0.17, p = 0.003) and motor fitness (β = -0.21, p < 0.001) in regression analyses adjusted for age, sex and mutually adjusted for fat-mass index and fat-free mass index. Conversely, higher fat-free mass index was associated with better cardiorespiratory fitness (β = 0.18, p = 0.002), upper-body muscular strength (β = 0.39, p < 0.001), lower-body muscular strength (β = 0.22, p < 0.001) and motor fitness (β = 0.17, p = 0.004). Thus, fat mass and fat-free mass in preschoolers appear to have joint but opposite associations with physical fitness, an important marker for current and future health.

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AdiposityBone DevelopmentChild DevelopmentMuscle DevelopmentPhysical FitnessBiomarkersBody CompositionBody Mass IndexCardiorespiratory FitnessChild BehaviorChild, PreschoolCross-Sectional StudiesExerciseFemaleHumansMaleBiomarkersair-displacement plethysmographybody compositioncardiorespiratory fitnessmotor fitnessmuscular strengthpreschool

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PMID27483320
PMCPMC4997386
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