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Physical activity, screen viewing time, and overweight/obesity among Chinese children and adolescents: an update from the 2017 physical activity and fitness in China—the youth study

BMC Public Health, 2019
Background With increases in inactive lifestyles and mounting pressure for academic excellence in Chinese younger populations, lack of physical activity and increased prevalence of obesity have become a major public health concern in China.
Zheng Zhu, Yan Tang, Jie Zhuang, Yang Liu, Xueping Wu, Yujun Cai, Lijuan Wang, Zhen-Bo Cao, Peijie Chen   +8 more
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The epigenetic clock is correlated with physical and cognitive fitness in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The DNA methylation-based 'epigenetic clock' correlates strongly with chronological age, but it is currently unclear what drives individual differences. We examine cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between the epigenetic clock and
Corley, Janie, Cox, Simon R, Deary, Ian J, Gibson, Jude, Harris, Sarah E, Horvath, Steve, Marioni, Riccardo E, McRae, Allan F, Muniz-Terrera, Graciela, Murphy, Lee, Pattie, Alison, Redmond, Paul, Ritchie, Stuart J, Shah, Sonia, Starr, John M, Taylor, Adele, Visscher, Peter M, Wray, Naomi R   +17 more
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Fit to Perform: A Profile of Higher Education Music Students’ Physical Fitness [PDF]

, 2020
Musicians are often called athletes of the upper body, but knowledge of their physical and fitness profiles is nonetheless limited, especially those of advanced music students who are training to enter music’s competitive professional landscape.
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Non-exercise equations to estimate fitness in white European and South Asian men [PDF]

, 2016
Cardiorespiratory fitness is a strong, independent predictor of health, whether it is measured in an exercise test or estimated in an equation. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate equations to estimate fitness in middle-aged white ...
Bakrania, Kishan, Davies, Melanie, Ghouri, Nazim, Gill, Jason M.R., Gray, Laura J., Hamer, Mark, Khunti, Kamlesh, O'Donovan, Gary, Sattar, Naveed, Stamatakis, Emmanuel, Yates, Thomas   +10 more
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An investigation of the relationship and pathways of influence between body mass index, motor coordination, and health-related physical fitness index in preschool children

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundMovement development and motor ability are related to preschool children's physical health, and obesity is an increasingly serious problem in early childhood.ObjectiveThe aim of this study was to analyze the mechanism of body mass index (BMI ...
Deqiang Zhao, Xiaoxiao Chen, Aoyu Zhang, Chunmiao Wang, Yibei Wang, Jin He, Jiaxin Chen, Haixia Hu, Xiaoni Tang, Aiying Zhang, Han Xiao, Yanfeng Zhang   +11 more
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Effects of various physical activities on the physical fitness of university men [PDF]

, 1935
Reprinted from the Supplement to the Research Quarterly of the American Physical Education Ass'n.
MacKenzie, Donald Hershey
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Association between school environment with sedentary behavior and physical activity intensity in children

Scientific Reports, 2023
We examined the association between indicators of the school environment with sedentary behavior and different intensities of physical activity in children.
Diego Sales, João Pedro da Silva Junior, Raiany Rosa Bergamo, Luis Carlos de Oliveira, Gerson Ferrari, Victor Matsudo   +5 more
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Variation in sport participation, fitness and motor coordination with socioeconomic status among Flemish children [PDF]

, 2012
Socioeconomic status (SES) is often indicated as a factor that influences physical activity and associated health outcomes. This study examined the relationship between SES and sport participation, morphology, fitness and motor coordination in a sample ...
Lefevre, Johan, Lenoir, Matthieu, Malina, Robert M, Philippaerts, Renaat, Vaeyens, Roel, Vandendriessche, Joric, Vandorpe, Barbara   +6 more
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Physical Fitness

Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 1983
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Current Status and Correlated Factors of Fall Risk Among Chinese Elderly Aged 60-79:A 2024 Nationwide Cross-Sectional Analysis

Xiehe Yixue Zazhi
ObjectiveTo investigate the prevalence and associated factors of fall risk among Chinese older adults, and to examine the roles of urban-rural differences, regional disparities, physical health status, and psychosocial factors in falls among this ...
ZHU Jiarong, WANG Jingjing, FAN Chaoqun, ZHANG Xu, FENG Qiang   +4 more
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