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Physical Activity, Screen Time, and Sleep Duration of Children Aged 6-9 Years i...
Whiting, S; Buoncristiano, M; Gelius, P; Abu-Omar, K; Pattison, M; Hyska, J; Duleva, V; Musić Milanović, S; Zamrazilová, H; Hejgaard, T; Rasmussen, MBackground: Children are becoming less physically active as opportunities for safe active play, recreational activities, and active transport decrease. At the same time, sedentary screen-based activities both during school and leisure time are increasing. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate physical activity (PA), screen time, and sleep duration of girls and boys aged 6–9 years in Europe using data from th...
Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents...
Horimoto, AR; Hormiga, CM; Horta, BL; Houti, L; Howitt, C; Htay, TT; Htet, AS; Htike, MMT; Hu, Y; Huerta, JM; Huhtaniemi, IT; Huidumac Petrescu, CBackground: Comparable global data on health and nutrition of school-aged children and adolescents are scarce. We aimed to estimate age trajectories and time trends in mean height and mean body-mass index (BMI), which measures weight gain beyond what is expected from height gain, for school-aged children and adolescents. Methods: For this pooled analysis, we used a database of cardiometabolic risk factors colla...
Personal, social and environmental predictors of daily fruit and vegetable inta...
De Bourdeaudhuij, I; Velde, ST; Brug, J; Due, P; Wind, M; Sandvik, C; Maes, L; Wolf, A; Perez Rodrigo, CP; Yngve, A; Thorsdottir, I; Rasmussen, MObjective: To investigate potential personal, social and physical environmental predictors of daily fruit intake and daily vegetable intake in 11-year-old boys and girls in nine European countries. Subjects: The total sample size was 13 305 (90.4% participation rate). Results: Overall, 43.2% of the children reported to eat fruit every day, 46.1% reported to eat vegetables every day. Daily fruit intake and daily...