ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020
Obesity and Body Composition in Preschool Children with Different Levels of Actigraphy-Derived Physical Activity-A Cross-Sectional Study.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07586579 (The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Body Composition in Overweight and Obese Boys Aged 8-12 Years.), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The Effects of Aerobic Exercise on Body Composition in Overweight and Obese Boys Aged 8-12 Years.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Adherence to the World Health Organization's physical activity recommendation in preschool-aged children: a systematic review and meta-analysis of accelerometer studies.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Pooled it
- Effects of different game-based physical activity programs on body composition in Chinese preschool children.Frontiers in public health · 2025Trial
- Comparative Analysis of Physical Activity, Performance-Related Health, and Academic Achievements in 11-to-13-Year-Old Schoolchildren in Qatar.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- When Are Children Most Physically Active? An Analysis of Preschool Age Children's Physical Activity Levels.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Healthy lifestyles and physical fitness are associated with abdominal obesity among Latin-American and Spanish preschool children: A cross-cultural study.Pediatric obesity · 2022Article
- Insufficient Physical Fitness and Deficits in Basic Eating Habits in Normal-Weight Obese Children Are Apparent from Pre-School Age or Sooner.Nutrients · 2021Article
- The association of actigraphic sleep measures and physical activity with excess weight and adiposity in kindergarteners.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Detailed associations between physical activity (PA) and body composition in preschoolers remain unclear. The aim of this study was to assess body composition among preschool children differentiated according to their levels of PA and to assess whether meeting the current PA recommendations is associated with a lower risk of obesity, determined by body mass index (BMI) and body fat percentage (BFP). Free-living PA was measured using accelerometers for 7 days in children aged 5 to 6 years. Bioelectrical impedance analysis was used to estimate body composition. Significant differences in content of BFP, fat-free mass (FFM), and total body water (TBW) were found between boys meeting and not meeting moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) recommendations. Meeting the MVPA recommendation was associated with a twofold lower risk of obesity determined by BFP in boys but not in girls. In contrast, the total number of recommended steps per day was not related to adiposity in boys or girls. No statistically significant differences were observed in body composition indices and quintiles of MVPA. Boys in the 3rd-5th quintiles of steps per day presented significantly lower BFP and higher muscle mass and TBW than their peers in quintile 1. However, different associations were observed between body composition indices and quintiles of PA.
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