Houston, Emma L. and Baker, Julien S. and Buchan, Duncan S. and Stratton, Gareth and Fairclough, Stuart J. and Foweather, Lawrence and Gobbi, Rebecca and Graves, Lee E. F. and Hopkins, Nicola and Boddy, Lynne M. (2013) Cardiorespiratory fitness predicts clustered cardiometabolic risk in 10–11.9-year-olds. European Journal of Pediatrics, 172 (7). pp. 913-918. ISSN 0340-6199
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The aim of this study was to investigate levels of clustered cardiometabolic risk and the odds of being ‘at risk’ according to cardiorespiratory fitness status in children. Data from 88 10–11.9-year-old children (mean age 11.05 ± 0.51 years), who participated in either the REACH Year 6 or the Benefits of Fitness Circuits for Primary School Populations studies were combined. Waist circumference, systolic blood pressure, diastolic blood pressure, glucose, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, adiponectin and C-reactive protein were assessed and used to estimate clustered cardiometabolic risk. Participants were classified as ‘fit’ or ‘unfit’ using recently published definitions (46.6 and 41.9 mL/kg/min for boys and girls, respectively), and continuous clustered risk scores between fitness groups were assessed. Participants were subsequently assigned to a ‘normal’ or ‘high’ clustered cardiometabolic risk group based on risk scores, and logistic regression analysis assessed the odds of belonging to the increased cardiometabolic risk group according to fitness. The unfit group exhibited significantly higher clustered cardiometabolic risk scores (p < 0.001) than the fit group. A clear association between fitness group and being at increased cardiometabolic risk (B = 2.509, p = 0.001) was also identified, and participants classed as being unfit were found to have odds of being classified as ‘at risk’ of 12.30 (95 % CI = 2.64–57.33).
Conclusion Assessing cardiorespiratory fitness is a valid method of identifying children most at risk of cardiometabolic pathologies. The ROC thresholds could be used to identify populations of children most at risk and may therefore be used to effectively target a cardiometabolic risk-reducing public health intervention.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Cardiorespiratory fitness, Children, Cardiometabolic disease Physical activity |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculty of Human and Digital Sciences > School of Health and Sport Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Susan Murray |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Mar 2014 09:40 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jul 2018 15:26 |
| URI: | https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/297 |
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