Fitness, fatness, cognition, behavior, and academic achievement among overweight children: Do cross-sectional associations correspond to exercise trial outcomes?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Davis, Catherine L ^a   Cooper, Stephanie ^b  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Adiposity; Behavior; Child; Cognition; Cross sectional; Fitness; Obesity; Overweight

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FITNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICS; OBESITY; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; TEACHER;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PHYSICAL FITNESS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 79958053605     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2011.01.020     Document Type: Article

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