Trial reportScandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports2020
The causal pathway effects of a physical activity intervention on adiposity in children: The KISS Study cluster randomized clinical trial.
Trial report in Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Effect of physical activity on anthropometric and physiological parameters in preschool and school-aged children: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent obesity in children aged 5 to 11 years old.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- The causal pathway effects of a physical activity intervention on adiposity in children: The KISS Study cluster randomized clinical trial.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2020Trial
- Impact of exercise on cardiovascular disease risk in overweight or obese children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2025Article
- The stability of cardiometabolic risk factors clustering in children and adolescents: a 2-year longitudinal study.Journal of diabetes and metabolic disorders · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundVery little information on the potential mechanisms of the physical activity interventions effects on adiposity is available. We evaluated the possible mediating factors of a physical activity school-based intervention on the sum of skinfolds in children.
methodsThis is a cluster randomized trial, secondary analysis of the KISS study. Children (n = 499) from the first and fifth grades were randomly assigned to intervention or control group. Adiposity was estimated by four skinfolds, aerobic fitness assessed by the shuttle run test, and insulin, triglycerides, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and glucose collected via fasting blood samples.
resultsThe intervention affected aerobic fitness (0.140 SD, 95% CI 0.011 to 0.270), triglycerides (0.217 SD, 95% CI -0.409 to -0.025), cholesterol/HDL ratio (-0.191 SD, 95% CI -0.334 to -0.047), glucose (-0.330 SD, 95% CI -0.538 to -0.121), and skinfolds (-0.122 SD, 95% CI -0.189 to -0.056). No intervention effect on insulin was found. We observed that changes in aerobic fitness impacted children's triglycerides and cholesterol/HDL ratio and consecutively the glucose levels mediating 30% of the intervention effect on skinfolds.
conclusionsOur findings provided evidence of the positive metabolic distress caused by a physical activity intervention on adiposity levels in children.
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