0000000001310374
AUTHOR
Mai Chinapaw
Large proportions of overweight and obese children, as well as their parents, underestimate children's weight status across Europe.
Objective: To investigate the magnitude and country-specific differences in under- estimation of children’s weight status by children and their parents in Europe and to further explore its associations with family characteristics and sociodemographic factors. Design: Children’s weight and height were objectively measured. Parental anthro- pometric and sociodemographic data were self-reported. Children and their parents were asked to comment on children’s weight status based on five-point Likert-type scales, ranging from ‘I am much too thin’ to ‘I am much too fat’ (children) and ‘My child’s weight is way too little’ to ‘My child’s weight is way too much’ (parents). These data were combined w…
European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 countries gathered by the FitBack network
Objectives (1) To develop reference values for health-related fitness in European children and adolescents aged 6–18 years that are the foundation for the web-based, open-access and multilanguage fitness platform (FitBack); (2) to provide comparisons across European countries. Methods This study builds on a previous large fitness reference study in European youth by (1) widening the age demographic, (2) identifying the most recent and representative country-level data and (3) including national data from existing fitness surveillance and monitoring systems. We used the Assessing Levels of PHysical Activity and fitness at population level (ALPHA) test battery as it comprises tests with the h…
Additional file 1 of Ideal cardiovascular health at age 5–6 years and cardiometabolic outcomes in preadolescence
Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Characteristics of included and non-included children. Supplementary Table 2. Defining Ideal Cardiovascular Health. Supplementary Table 3. Association between original ICH score and cardiovascular health outcomes at age 5-6 years. Supplementary Table 4. Association between original ICH score at age 5-6 years and cardiovascular health outcomes at age 11-12 years.
Additional file 1: of Patterns of objectively measured sedentary time in 10- to 12-year-old Belgian children: an observational study within the ENERGY-project
Dataset. Sedentary patterns of 10- to 12-year old children. (XLS 1444 kb)