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Temporal trend of cardiorespiratory endurance in urban Catalan high school students over a 20 year period.
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- Temporal Trends in Health-Related Components of Physical Fitness of European Children and Adolescents from 1965 to 2025: A Systematic Review of Data on 417,362 Participants from 20 Countries.Sports medicine - open · 2026Pooled it
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- Relationship between Physical Activity Levels and Academic Performance in Adolescents from Serbia.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Physical, Psychological, and Body Composition Differences between Active and Sedentary Adolescents According to the "Fat but Fit" Paradigm.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Correlations between Physical Fitness and Body Composition among Boys Aged 14-18-Conclusions of a Case Study to Reverse the Worsening Secular Trend in Fitness among Urban Youth Due to Sedentary Lifestyles.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Participation in Sports Clubs during College Is an Important Factor Associated with School Counselors' Participation in Leisure Time Activities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundPhysical fitness is considered an important indicator of health in adolescents. However, in recent years several studies in the scientific literature have shown a considerable lower trend and an alarming worsening of the current adolescents' physical condition when comparing with previous decades, especially in urban populations. The aim of the current study was to analyse the temporal trend in cardiorespiratory endurance (CRE) in urban Catalan adolescents over a 20-year period (1999-2019).
methodsA cross-sectional analysis study considering the 20-m Shuttle Run test (SRT) results obtained in the last 20 years was carried out. 1,701 adolescents between 15 and 16 years old (914 boys and 787 girls) were divided into four groups, corresponding to consecutive periods of five years (Group 1: 1999-2004; Group 2: 2005-2009; Group 3: 2010-2014 and Group 4: 2015-2019). ANOVA was used to test the period effect on CRE and post hoc Bonferroni analysis was performed to test pairwise differences between groups (
resultsResults showed a significantly lower performance in CRE in both sexes. The percentual negative difference was 0.67%, 9.6% and 7% for boys and 5.06%, 14.97% and 9.41% for girls, when comparing the performance in 20-m Shuttle Run test for the first period, respectively.
conclusionsResults suggest that the physical fitness of Catalan urban adolescents is lower in both sexes when comparing the different analysed periods of time. Therefore, CRE adolescents should be improved in order to help to protect against cardiovascular disease and other health risks in adulthood.
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