Nutritional status, physical activity level, waist circumference, and flexibility in brazilian boys;Estado nutricional, nível de atividade física, circunferência de cintura e flexibilidade em meninos brasileiros

Revista Brasileira de Cineantropometria e Desempenho Humano

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 321-326

  Fernandes, Rômulo Araújo ^a,b,c   Destro Christofaro, Diego Giuliano ^a,b,c   Grizzo Cucato, Gabriel ^a,b   Agostini, Lucas ^d   de Oliveira, Arli Ramos ^a,c   Freitas Júnior, Ismael Forte ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF LONDRINA   (Brazil)

^b Grupo de Estudo e Pesquisa em Atividade Física e Exercício GEPAFE UEL   (Brazil)

^c Grupo de Estudo e Pesquisa em Atividade Física e Saúde GEPAFIS UEL   (Brazil)

^d SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Body fat; Flexibility; Physical activity; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952228955     PISSN: 14158426     EISSN: 19800037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Wang Y, Monteiro C, Popkin BM. Trends of obesity and underweight in older children and adolescents in the United States Brazil China and Russia. Am J Clin Nutr 2002; 756: 971-7.
2. Guedes DP, Guedes JERP, Barbosa DS, Oliveira JA, Stanganelli LCR. Fatores de risco cardiovasculares em adolescente: Indicadores biológicos e comportamentais. Arq Bras Cardiol 2006; 866: 439-50.
3. Must A. Morbidity and mortality associated with elevated body weight in children and adolescents. Am J Clin nutr 1996; 63(3): 445-7.
4. Fontaine KR, Redden DT, Wang C, Westfall AO, Allison DB. Years of life lost due to obesity. JAMA 2003; 283(2): 187-193.
5. Wang G, Dietz WH. Economic burden of obesity in youths aged 6 to 17 years: 1979-1999. Pediatrics 2002; 1096: 1195-200.
6. Bouchard, C. The obesity epidemic: introduction. In: C. Bouchard (Ed.), Physical activity and obesity. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Book; 2000. p. 3-20.
7. Katzmarzyk PT, Malina RM, Song TMK, Bouchard C. Physical activity and health-related fitness in youth: a multivariate analysis (Epidemiology). Med Sci Sports Exerc 1998; 30(5): 709-14.
8. Gutin B, Yin Z, Humphries MC, Barbeau P. Relations of moderate and vigorous physical activity to fitness and fatness in adolescents. Am J Clin Nutr 2005; 81(4): 746-50.
9. Huang Y, Malina RM. Physical activity and health-related physical fitness in Taiwanese adolescents. J Physiol Anthropol Appl Human Sci 2002; 21(1): 11-19.
10. Kim J, Must A, Fitzmaurice GM, Gillman MW, Chomitz V, Kramer E. Relationship of physical fitness to prevalence and incidence of overweight among schoolchildren. Obes Res 2005; 13(7): 1246-54.
11. Tokmakidis SP, Kasambalis A, Christodoutos AD. Fitness levels of Greek primary schoolchildren in relation to overweight and obesity. Eur J Pediatr 2006; 162(12): 867-74.
12. Ekelund U, Aman J, Yngve A, Renman C, Westerterp K, Sjostrom M. Physical activity but not energy expenditure is reduced in obese adolescents: a case-control study. Am J Clin Nutr 2002; 76(5): 935-41.
13. Neovius MG, Linné YM, Barkeling BS, Rossner SO. Sensitivity and specificity of classification systems of fatness in adolescents. Am J Clin Nutr 2004; 80(3): 597-603.
14. Ekelund U, Sardinha LB, Anderssen SA, Harro M, Franks PW, Brage S, et al. Associations between objectively assessed physical activity and indicators of body fatness in 9-to 10-y-old European children: a population-based study from 4 distinct regions in Europe (the European Youth Heart Study). Am J Clin Nutr 2004; 80(3): 584-90.
15. Taylor RW, Jones JE, Williams SM, Goulding A. Evaluation of waist circumference, waist-to-hip, and the conicity index as screening tools for high trunk fat mass, as measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry, in children aged 3-19y. Am J Clin Nutr 2000; 72(2): 490-5.
16. Lohman, T.G., Roche, A.F., Martorel, R. Anthropometric standardization reference manual. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics Books; 1988. p. 3-54.
17. Heyward H, Stolarczyk LM. Avaliação da composição corporal aplicada. São Paulo: Editora Manole; 2000.
18. Taylor RW, Jones JE, Williams SM, Goulding A. Body fat percentages measured by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry corresponding to recently recommended body mass index cutoffs for overweight and obesity in children and adolescents aged 3-18 years. Am J Clin Nutr 2002; 766: 1416-21.
19. Craig CL, Marshall AL, Sjortrom M, Bauman AE, Booth ML, Ainsworth BE, et al. International physical activity questionnaire: 12 country reliability and validity. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2003; 35(8): 1381-95.
20. Cavill N, Bidlle S, Sallis J. Health enhancing physical activity for young people: statement of Uniteg Kingdon expert consensus conference. Ped Exerc Science 2001; 13: 12-25.
21. AAHPERD. American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. Physical Best. Reston: American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance; 1988.
22. Chen W, Lin CC, Peng CT, Li CI, Wu HC, Chiang J. et al. Approaching healthy body mass index norms for children and adolescents from Health-Related physical fitness. Obes Rev 2002; 3(3): 225-232.
23. Mei Z, Laurence G, Pietrobelli A, Goulding A, Goran MI, Dietz WH. Validity of body mass index compared with other body-composition screening indexes for the assessment of body fatness in children and adolescents. Am J Clin Nutr 2002; 75(6): 978-85.
24. Sun SS, Chumlea WC, Heymsfield SB, Lukaski HC, Schoeller D, Friedl K, et al. Development of biolectrical impedance analysis prediction equations for body composition with the use of a multicomponent model for use in epidemiologic surveys. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 77(2): 331-40.
25. Ara I, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Jimenez-Ramirez J, Dorado C, Serrano-Sanchez JA, Calbert JA. Regular participation in sports is associated with enhanced physical fitness and lower fat mass in prepubertal boys. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 2004; 28(12): 1585-93.
26. Mota J, Ribeiro J, Santos MP, Gomes H. Obesity, physical activity, computer use, and TV viewing in Portuguese adolescents. Pediatr Exerc Sci 2006; 17(1): 113-21.
27. Fernandes RA, Oliveira AR, Freitas Júnior IF. Correlação entre diferentes indicadores de adiposidade corporal e atividade física habitual em jovens do sexo masculino. Rev Bras Cineantrom Desempenho Hum 2006; 8(4): 32-8.