Observational studyScientific reports2021
Secular trends in health-related physical fitness among 11-14-year-old Croatian children and adolescents from 1999 to 2014.
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- Temporal trends of physical fitness in northern Italian children (2014-2019): a repeated cross-sectional study.Journal of public health (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Population-based trends and distributional characteristics in sit-ups performance among school-aged girls in urban China over three decades.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Temporal Trends of Linear Speed and Change of Direction Performance in Italian Children.Journal of human kinetics · 2025Article
- 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
- Trends in Physical Activity and Motor Development in Young People-Decline or Improvement? A Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Secular trends in physical fitness of rural Chinese children and adolescents aged 7-18 years from 1985 to 2019.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Secular Trends in Physical Fitness of Peruvian Children Living at High-Altitude.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Trend in health-related physical fitness for Chinese male first-year college students: 2013-2019.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Associations between Fat Mass and Fat Free Mass with Physical Fitness in Adolescent Girls: A 3-Year Longitudinal Study.Biology · 2022Article
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- Defining Optimal Cut-Points for Cardiorespiratory Fitness Associated With Overweight/Obesity in Children: A School-Based Study.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Twelve-Week Game-Based School Intervention Improves Physical Fitness in 12-14-Year-Old Girls.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Trends in Morphological Characteristics among 7- and 11-Year-Old Serbian Children: A Comparison between 1990 and 2020.BioMed research international · 2022Article
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Abstract
The main purpose of the study was to analyze secular trends of health-related physical fitness in 7-14-year-old Croatian children and adolescents from 1999 and 2014. In this observational cross-sectional study, we recruited 5077 children and adolescents between ages 11 and 14 (50.8% girls) from five primary schools located in the capital city of Zagreb. Physical fitness performance was tested from 1999 until 2014. Physical fitness performance included: (1) body-mass index (measure of body size), (2) standing broad jump (measure of lower-body power), (3) polygon backwards (measure of general coordination and agility), (4) sit-ups in 60 s (measure of upper-body strength), (5) sit-and-reach test (measure of flexibility) and (6) 6-min run test (measure of cardiorespiratory fitness). Boys performed better in all physical fitness tests, except for sit-and-reach test (p < 0.001). In boys, between 1999 and 2014, body size, upper-body strength and coordination/agility increased, while flexibility, lower-body power and cardiorespiratory fitness decreased. During the same period, girls experienced an increase in body size, lower-body power, upper-body strength, coordination/agility and flexibility, while cardiorespiratory fitness decreased. This study shows that cardiorespiratory fitness, flexibility and coordination/agility decrease, while upper-body strength increases in both sexes. These findings should serve as an avenue for national monitoring system to screen and track biological development in children and adolescents.
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