ArticleBMJ evidence-based medicine2021
Children's fitness and health: an epic scandal of poor methodology, inappropriate statistics, questionable editorial practices and a generation of misinformation.
Article in BMJ evidence-based medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Field-Based Health-Related Physical Fitness Tests in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2021Pooled it
- Direction of Change in Cardiorespiratory Fitness in School-Age Children: A Longitudinal Single-Centre Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Changes in the ideal body shape associated with adolescent rowing-ergometry performance following a 6-week training intervention: New scaling insights using three-dimensional allometry.European journal of sport science · 2024Article
- Scaling Peak Oxygen Consumption for Body Size and Composition in People With a Fontan Circulation.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
- Clustered cardiovascular disease risk among children aged 8-13 years from lower socioeconomic schools in Gqeberha, South Africa.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2022Article
- Comment on 'Developing a New Curvilinear Allometric Model to Improve the Fit and Validity of the 20-m Shuttle Run Test as a Predictor of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Adults and Youth'.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2021Article
- Traditional and New Perspectives on Youth Cardiorespiratory Fitness.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2020Article
- Profiling the health-related physical fitness of Irish adolescents: A school-level sociodemographic divide.PloS one · 2020Article
- The 20 m shuttle run is not a valid test of cardiorespiratory fitness in boys aged 11-14 years.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2019Article
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