Fitness, fatness, and academic performance in seventh-grade elementary school students

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Sardinha, Luís B ^a   Marques, Adilson ^a   Martins, Sandra ^b   Palmeira, António ^a,b   Minderico, Cláudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA DE HUMANIDADES E TECNOLOGIAS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Academic performance; Physical fitness; School; Weight status

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CARDIOPULMONARY FUNCTION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ELEMENTARY STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; MATHEMATICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PROGRESSIVE AEROBIC CARDIOVASCULAR ENDURANCE RUN; SCHOOL CHILD; SCIENCE; ACHIEVEMENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EXERCISE TEST; FITNESS; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL FITNESS; SCHOOLS;

EID: 84903667584     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-176     Document Type: Article

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