Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Adiposity, and Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Schoolchildren: The FUPRECOL Study

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) in schoolchildren. A secondary aim was to evaluate the degree of association between overall and abdominal adiposity and CRF in a total of 1,875 children and adolescents attending public schools. We expressed CRF performance as the nearest stage (minute) completed and the estimated peak oxygen consumption. A CVRF (Z score) was calculated and participants were divided into tertiles according to low and high levels of overall (sum of the skinfold thicknesses) and abdominal adiposity. Schoolchildren with a high-level of overall adiposity demonstrated significant differences in seven of the 10 variables analyzed (i.e., systolic and diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, triglycerides/high density lipoproteins [HDL-c] ratio, total cholesterol, glucose, C-reactive protein [usCRP], HDL-c, low density lipoproteins [LDL-c], and cardiovascular risk score). Schoolchildren with high levels of both overall and abdominal adiposity and low CRF had the least favorable CVRF score. © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016.

• Fecha de publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad del Rosario
• Repositorio: Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario
• Idioma: eng
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/23487
• Acceso en línea: https://doi.org/10.1177/0193945916664900; https://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/23487
• Palabra clave: C reactive protein; Cholesterol; Glucose; Triacylglycerol; Adolescent; Analysis of variance; Blood; Blood pressure; Body weight; Cardiorespiratory fitness; Child; Colombia; Complication; Epidemiology; Female; Human; Male; Obesity; Risk factor; School health service; Standards; Statistics and numerical data; Adiposity; Adolescent; Analysis of Variance; Blood Pressure; Body Weight; C-Reactive Protein; Cardiorespiratory Fitness; Child; Cholesterol; Colombia; Female; Glucose; Humans; Male; Obesity; Risk Factors; School Health Services; Triglycerides; Adiposity; Cardiorespiratory fitness; Cardiovascular risk; Schoolchildren
• License: Abierto (Texto Completo)