ArticleEuropean journal of pediatrics2018
Changes in muscular fitness and its association with blood pressure in adolescents.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Assessment of physical activity among adolescents: a guide to the literature.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Muscular Fitness and Cardiometabolic Variables in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- Is Muscular Fitness Associated with Future Health Benefits in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2019Pooled it
- 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
- The ACDSi 2023-24 study protocol: tracking 50 years of physical fitness trends and their determinants in Slovenian children and youth.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- The relationship between hypertension and health-related physical fitness in older adult residences in Wuhan: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Association of Initial Muscle Fitness with Weight Loss and Metabolically Healthy Status in Children and Adolescents with Obesity: A Retrospective Study.Metabolites · 2024Article
- Role of muscle mass in the association between handgrip strength and blood pressure in children and adolescents.Journal of human hypertension · 2024Article
- Muscle Quality Index in Morbidly Obesity Patients Related to Metabolic Syndrome Markers and Cardiorespiratory Fitness.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Physical fitness mediates and predicts for high blood pressure among children in relation to weight status.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- A Better Cardiopulmonary Fitness Is Associated with Improved Concentration Level and Health-Related Quality of Life in Primary School Children.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Sex Moderated Mediation of the Musculoskeletal Fitness in Relationship between High-Intensive Interval Training Performing during Physical Education Classes and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Healthy Boys and Girls.BioMed research international · 2022Article
- Improvements in Physical Fitness are Associated with Favorable Changes in Blood Lipid Concentrations in Children.Journal of sports science & medicine · 2021Article
- Body muscle gain and markers of cardiovascular disease susceptibility in young adulthood: A cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2021Observational
- Clustering of 24-h movement behaviors associated with cardiorespiratory fitness among adolescents: a latent class analysis.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Article
- Hypertensive Measures In Schoolchildren: Risk Of Central Obesity And Protective Effect Of Moderate-To-Vigorous Physical Activity.Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia · 2020Article
- Muscular fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with health-related quality of life: Results from labmed physical activity study.Journal of exercise science and fitness · 2019Review
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Abstract
The aims of this study were to examine the longitudinal association between muscular fitness (MF) and blood pressure (BP) 2 years later, and to determine whether changes in MF over a 2-year period were associated with BP at follow-up, in adolescents. The sample comprised 734 youths (349 girls) aged from 12 to 18 years. MF was assessed with the standing long jump and handgrip tests. Socioeconomic status, pubertal stage, waist circumference, resting BP, and cardiorespiratory fitness were measured according to standard procedures. Regression analyses showed a significant inverse association between MF at baseline and systolic BP (β = - 0.072; p = 0.032) and rate pressure product (β = - 0.124; p < 0.001) at follow-up, after adjustments for age, sex, height, pubertal stage, and socioeconomic status. However, when analyses were further adjusted for waist circumference and cardiorespiratory fitness, these associations did not remain significant. Adolescents with persistently high and increasing MF exhibited the lowest levels of diastolic BP (F
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