Introduction: Chronic sleep problems in adults have been associated with abdominal obesity and cardiometabolic disorders. However, associations between habitual sleep patterns and central obesity have not been fully understood, especially in adolescents. We investigated the associations between habitual sleep duration and its variability and body fat distribution in population-based adolescents ...
Introduction: Night-to-night variability of sleep variables derived from actigraphy or sleep diary data appears to be a novel risk factor associated with physical and mental health. However, little is known about factors associated with night-to-night sleep variability. The aim of this study was to assess the association of sociodemographic and ...
Introduction: Childhood obesity is a consequence of environments that disrupt the balance of energy intake and energy expenditure.
Obesogenic environments consist of social norms and environmental factors that facilitate unhealthy behaviors around diet and physical activity. Nutritional knowledge and physical activity are cornerstones of every obesity treatment. The aims are ...
Abstract Introduction: Some of the chronic diseases that appear in adulthood are developed in childhood stage. There are few studies investigating the association between physical activity (PA) and cardiovascular and metabolic disease risk markets using objective measurement for apparently healthy adolescents.
Aim: The primary aim of the study was to ...
Introduction: Prevalence of overweight and obesity, highly sedentary behaviors (SB) and a lack of physical activity (PA) among young children and adolescent are a major public concern. They are important risk factors for many chronic diseases such as diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. However evidence has shown that most children and ...
The purpose of this study was to provide further insight into the limited amount of data that exists on both the dietary practices and energy expenditure of adolescent academy-level football players. Ten male adolescent football players, representing a professional club at academy level (mean ± SD: 15.4 ± 0.3 years; height 1.7 ± 0.1m; weight 57.8 ± 7.8kg ...
Introduction: Nowadays, many researchers have been focused on complex relationship between urban environment attributes and healthy behaviors as physical activity (PA) and dietary intake. However, there are major gaps in our understanding of the way shifts in the physical and social environments affect changes in dietary intake, physical activity patterns ...
Introduction: Despite known benefits of regular physical activity for health and well-being, many studies suggest that levels of physical
activity in young people are low, with the majority of youth not meeting the minimum 60-minute daily moderate to vigorous PA (MVPA)
guideline for health. The purpose of this study was ...
Introductions: Physical inactivity is associated with a higher risk of obesity, type II diabetes, hypertension, stroke, psychological problems,
and some cancers (1). Currently there are no recommendations in Ireland for sedentary behaviour (SB), however, Australian guidelines recommend <2hours a day in sedentary screen time (ST) behaviour (2).
Purpose: The purpose of ...
Purpose: To examine relationships between parent perceived neighborhood recreational environment and physical activity (PA) in adolescents. Perceived diversity and proximity of recreation facilities is a core component of activity friendly neighborhood environments which may contribute to youth PA.
Methods: Participants (N=928, mean age 14.1± 1.4 years old, with 50.4% girls, 33.4 non-white/Hispanic) were ...