Effects of physical fitness on waist circumference in a group of school children living in Southern Italy

Sport Sciences for Health

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 261-267

  Martone, Domenico ^a,b   Russomando, Luca ^a   Gallè, Francesca ^a   Gallarato, Valeria ^a   Mancusi, Caterina ^a   Mastronuzzi, Roberto ^a   Valerio, Giuliana ^a   Liguori, Giorgio ^a   Buono, Pasqualina ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Body weight; Health related physical fitness; Physical activity; Physical fitness; Waist circumference

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919947864     PISSN: 18247490     EISSN: 18251234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11332-014-0206-9     Document Type: Article

References (44)

1. Mokdad AH, Marks JS, Stroup DF, Gerberding JL (2004) Actual causes of death in the United States, 2000. JAMA 291:1238–1245
2. Strong WB, Malina RM, Blimkie CJ, Daniels SR, Dishman RK, Gutin B, Hergenroeder AC, Must A, Nixon PA, Pivarnik JM, Rowland T, Trost S, Trudeau F (2005) Evidence based physical activity for school-age youth. J Pediatr 146:732–737
3. Jonker JT, de Laet C, Franco OH, Peeters A, Mackenbach J, Nusselder WJ (2006) Physical activity and life expectancy with and without diabetes: life table analysis of the Framingham heart study. Diabetes Care 29:38–43
4. Myers J, Prakash M, Froelicher V, Do D, Partington S, Atwood JE (2002) Exercise capacity and mortality among men referred for exercise testing. N Engl J Med 346:793–801
5. Gulati M, Pandey DK, Arnsdorf MF, Lauderdale DS, Thisted RA, Wicklund RH et al (2003) Exercise capacity and the risk of death in women: the St JamesWomen take heart project. Circulation 108:1554–1559
6. Carnethon MR, Gulati M, Greenland P (2005) Prevalence and cardiovascular disease correlates of low cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescents and adults. JAMA 294:2981–2988
7. Andersen LB, Harro M, Sardinha LB, Froberg K, Ekelund U, Brage S et al (2006) Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children: a crosssectional study (The European youth heart study). Lancet 368:299–304
8. Castillo Garzon MJ, Ortega Porcel FB, Ruiz Ruiz J (2005) Improvement of physical fitness as anti-aging intervention. Med Clin 124:146–155
9. Kurl S, Laukkanen JA, Rauramaa R, Lakka TA, Sivenius J, Salonen JT (2003) Cardiorespiratory fitness and the risk for stroke in men. Arch Intern Med. 163:1682–1688
10. Carnethon MR, Gidding SS, Nehgme R, Sidney S, Jacobs DR Jr, Liu K (2003) Cardiorespiratory fitness in young adulthood and the development of cardiovascular disease risk factors. JAMA 290:3092–3100
11. Metter EJ, Talbot LA, Schrager M, Conwit R (2002) Skeletal muscle strength as a predictor of all-cause mortality in healthy men. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 57:359–365
12. Mora S, Redberg RF, Cui Y, Whiteman MK, Flaws JA, Sharrett AR et al (2003) Ability of exercise testing to predict cardiovascular and all-cause death in asymptomatic women: a 20-year follow-up of the lipid research clinics prevalence study. JAMA 290:1600–1607
13. Wedderkopp N, Froberg K, Hansen HS, Riddoch C, Andersen LB (2003) Cardiovascular risk factors cluster in children and adolescents with low physical fitness: the European youth heart study (EYHS). Pediatr Exerc Sci 15:419–427
14. Ekelund U, Poortvliet E, Nilsson A, Yngve A, Holmberg A, Sjostrom M (2001) Physical activity in relation to aerobic fitness and body fat in 14- to 15-year-old boys and girls. Eur J Appl Physiol 85:195–201
15. Mesa JL, Ortega FB, Ruiz JR, Castillo MJ, Hurtig Wennlöf A, Gutiérrez A (2006) The importance of cardiorespiratory fitness for healthy metabolic traits in children and adolescents: the AVENA study. J Public Health 14:178–180
16. Ortega FB, Tresaco B, Ruiz JR, Moreno LA, Martin-Matillas M, Warnberg J, Bueno M, Tercedor P, Gutierrez A, Castillo MJ (2006) Cardiorespiratory fitness and sedentary activity are associated with adiposity in adolescents. Obesity (Silver Spring) 15(6):1589–1599
17. Ruiz JR, Rizzo N, Wennlof A, Ortega FB, Harro M, Sjostrom M (2006) Relations of total physical activity and intensity to fitness and fatness in children; the European youth heart study. Am J Clin Nutr 84:299–303
18. Ruiz JR, Ortega FB, Meusel D, Harro M, Oja P, Sjöström M (2006) Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with features of metabolic risk factors in children. Should cardiorespiratory fitness be assessed in a European health monitoring system? The European youth heart study. J Public Health 14:94–102
19. Janz KF, Dawson JD, Mahoney LT (2002) Increases in physical fitness during childhood improve cardiovascular health during adolescence: the Muscatine study. Int J Sports Med 23(Suppl 1):15–21
20. Boreham C, Twisk J, Murray L, Savage M, Strain JJ, Cran G (2001) Fitness, fatness, and coronary heart disease risk in adolescents: the Northern Ireland young hearts project. Med Sci Sports Exerc 33:270–274
21. Boreham C, Twisk J, Neville C, Savage M, Murray L, Gallagher A (2002) Associations between physical fitness and activity patterns during adolescence and cardiovascular risk factors in young adulthood: the Northern Ireland young hearts project. Int J Sports Med 23(Suppl 1):22–26
22. Hasselstrøm H, Hansen SE, Froberg K, Andersen LB (2002) Physical fitness and physical activity during adolescence as predictors of cardiovascular disease risk in young adulthood. Danish youth and sports study. An eight-year follow-up study. Int J Sports Med 23(Suppl 1):27–31
23. Twisk JW, Kemper HC, Van Mechelen W (2002) Prediction of cardiovascular disease risk factors later in life by physical activity and physical fitness in youth: general comments and conclusions. Int J Sports Med 23(Suppl 1):44–49
24. Ara I, Vicente-Rodriguenz G, Jimenez-Raminez J, Dorado C, Serrano-Sanchez JA, Calbert JA (2004) Regular participation in sports is associated with enhanced physical fitness and lower fat mass in prepubertal boys. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:1585–1593
25. Fogelholm M, Stigman S, Huisman T, Metsa¨muuronen J (2008) Physical fitness in adolescents with normal weight and overweight. Scand J Med Sci Sports 18:162–170
26. Ara I, Sanchez-Villegas A, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Moreno LA, Leiva MT, Martinez-Conzalez MA et al (2010) Physical fitness and obesity are associated in a dose dependent manner in children. Ann Nutr Metab 57:251–259
27. Ara I, Moreno LA, Leiva MT, Gutin B, Casajus JA (2007) Adiposity, physical activity, and physical fitness among children from Aragòn, Spain. Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1918–1924
28. Cacciari E, Milani S, Balsamo A, Directive Council of SIEDP (2006) Italian cross-sectional growth charts for height, weight and BMI (2 to 20 yr). J Endocrinol Invest 29(7):581–593
29. McCarthy HD, Crawley HF, Jarrett KV (2001) Development of waist circumference percentiles in British children aged 5.0-16.0 years. Eur J Clin Nutr 55:902–907
30. Prochaska JJ, Sallis JF, Long BA (2001) Physical activity screening measure for use with adolescents in primary care. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 155:554
31. Committee of experts on sports research EUROFIT (1993) Handbook for the EUROFIT tests of physical fitness. Council of Europe, Strasburg
32. Martinez-Gomez D, Ortega FB, Ruiz JR, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Veiga OL, Widhalm K, Manios Y, Béghin L, Valtueña J, Kafatos A, Molnar D, Moreno LA, Marcos A, Castillo MJ, Sjöström M, HELENA study group Martinez-Gomez D (2011) Excessive sedentary time and low cardiorespiratory fitness in European adolescents: the HELENA study. Arch Dis Child 96:240–246
33. Castro-Piñero Jl, Ortega FB, Mora J, Sjöström M, Ruiz JR (2009) Criterion related validity of ½ mile run-walk test for estimating VO2 peak in children aged 6–17 years. Int J Sports Med 30(5):366–371
34. Fitness assessment test administrators manual (2009) The “third generation” Connecticut physical fitness assessment. Connecticut State Department of Education
35. Hoekstra T, Boreham CA, Murray LJ, Twisk JW (2008) Associations between aerobic and muscular fitness and cardiovascular disease risk: the northern Ireland young hearts study. J Phys Act Health 5:815–829
36. Moliner-Urdiales D, Ruiz JR, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Ortega FB, Rey-Lopez JP et al (2011) Associations of muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness with total and central body fat in adolescents: the HELENA study. Br J Sports Med 45:101–108
37. Sveinsson T, Arngrimsson SA, Johannsson E (2009) Association between aerobic fitness, body composition, and physical activity in 9- and 15-year-olds. Eur J Sports Sci 9:141–150
38. Reilly JJ, Jackson DM, Montgomery C, Kelly LA, Slater C, Grant S et al (2004) Total energy expenditure and physical activity in young Scottish children: mixed longitudinal study. Lancet 363:21–22
39. Ortega FB, Ruiz JR, Hurtig-Wennlo A, Vicente-Rodriguez G, Rizzo NS, Castillo MJ et al (2010) Cardiovascular fitness modifies the associations between physical activity and abdominal adiposity in children and adolescents: the European youth heart study. Br J Sports Med 44:256–262
40. Tammelin T, Laitinen J, Nayha S (2004) Change in the level of physical activity from adolescent into adulthood and obesity at the age of 31. Int J Obes 28:77–82
41. Artero EG, España-Romero V, Ortega FB, Jiménez-Pavón D, Ruiz JR et al (2010) Health-related fitness in adolescents: underweight, and not only overweight, as an influencing factor. The AVENA study. Scand J Med Sci Sports 20:418–427
42. Brunet M, Chaput J-P, Tremblay A (2007) The association between low physical fitness and high body mass index or waist circumference is increasing with age in children: the ‘Québec en Forme’ project. Int J Obes 31:637–643
43. Buchan DS, Young JD, Boddy LM, Baker JS (2014) Independent associations between cardiorespiratory fitness, waist circumference, BMI, and clustered cardiometabolic risk in adolescents. Am J Human Biol 26:29–35
44. Stigman S, Rintala P, Kukkonen-Harjula K, Kujala U, Rinne M, Fogelholm M (2009) Eight-year-old children with high cardiorespiratory fitness have lower overall and abdominal fatness. Int J Pediatr Obes 4(2):98–105