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Iris Niederer1, Susi Kriemler, Lukas Zahner, Flavia Bürgi, Vincent Ebenegger, Pedro Marques, Jardena J Puder.
Abstract
In the Ballabeina study, we investigated age- and BMI-group-related differences in aerobic fitness (20 m shuttle run), agility (obstacle course), dynamic (balance beam) and static balance (balance platform), and physical activity (PA, accelerometers) in 613 children (M age = 5.1 years, SD = 0.6). Normal weight (NW) children performed better than overweight (OW) children in aerobic fitness, agility, and dynamic balance (all p <.001), while OWchildren had a better static balance (p < .001). BMI-group-related differences in aerobic fitness and agility were larger in older children (p for interaction with age = .01) in favor of the NW children. PA did not differ between NW and OW (p > or = .1), but did differ between NW and obese children (p < .05). BMI-group-related differences in physical fitness can already be present in preschool-age children.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22428407 DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2012.10599820
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Res Q Exerc Sport ISSN: 0270-1367 Impact factor: 2.500