ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2021
"Fitness and Fatness" in Children and Adolescents: An Italian Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Effects of Different Teaching Approaches on Proxy Measures of Physical Fitness of Italian Kindergarten Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Increasing Physical Activity at School Improves Physical Fitness of Early Adolescents.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Association of Body Mass Index and Fat Mass with Health-Related Physical Fitness among Chinese Schoolchildren: A Study Using a Predictive Model.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis-Derived Phase Angle and Body Composition Are Predictors of Health-Related Fitness in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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- Benefits of Physical Exercise as Approach to Prevention and Reversion of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Effects of an Online Supervised Exercise Training in Children with Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Use of Physical Activity and Exercise to Reduce Inflammation in Children and Adolescents with Obesity.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
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- The Temporal Association between Body Characteristics and Speed Performance over Twenty-Five Years in Italian Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Lower fitness levels, higher fat-to-lean mass ratios, and lower cardiorespiratory endurance are more likely to affect the body mass index of Saudi children and adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
Children with obesity tend to have lower level of physical activity compared to non-obese peers. In fact, sedentary behaviors are prevalent in obese children causing difficulties to perform motor tasks and engaging in sport activities. This, in turn, has direct repercussions on adiposity and related comorbidities. The aim of the study was to investigate several components of fitness and their relationship with the degree of fatness in children. We considered 485 Italian schoolchildren (9.5 ± 1.12 years). BMI and prediction modelling outputs of fat mass were employed as markers of body fatness. Physical fitness (PF) was assessed by the 9-item test battery (explosive power, leg muscle power, arm muscle power, upper body power, coordination, agility, speed and endurance). Differences between groups in the PF tests (
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