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Cross-sectional associations of body size indicators and lifestyle behaviors with cardiorespiratory fitness among adolescents: an allometric approach

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Abstract

Aim

This study aimed to verify the associations of body size indicators and lifestyle behaviors with cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) among adolescents using an allometric scale.

Methods

We evaluated 569 adolescents (53.6% females; mean age, 13.0 ± 1.0 years) from Florianópolis, Southern Brazil. The 20-m shuttle run was used to assess CRF, while a questionnaire was used to measure lifestyle behaviors (practicing sports and non-sports physical activity, different screen time components, sleep duration, healthy and unhealthy diet score, tobacco smoking, and alcohol consumption), and body size indicators (body mass and stature). Bayesian log-linear regression models were applied to identify the association of body size indicators and lifestyle behaviors with CRF.

Results

We found that body mass, stature, sports and non-sports physical activities, consumption of fruits and vegetables (healthy diet), and not smoking were related to greater CRF among adolescents.

Conclusions

Our results show that studies focused on increasing CRF should consider not only body size indicators but also lifestyle behaviors.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the Municipal Department of Education of Florianópolis for its technical support and authorizing the execution of the study. We thank all members of the school community (managers, teachers, parents, and students) of the participating schools for their support during the study and the School of Sports of the Federal University of Santa Catarina for its technical support. We also thank the Movimente Study Working Group for conducting the study.

Funding

This work was supported in part by Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico—Brasil (CNPq) under grant 446227/2014-5. In addition, RMC is support by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas (FAPEAM) and GTM is support by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior—Brasil (CAPES)—Finance Code 001. Also, KSS receives Productivity Grant from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq process number: 305803/2020-4). The views of the funding agency had no influence on the content or conduct of the review.

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  1. Research Center for Physical Activity and Health, School of Sports, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil

    Rafael Martins da Costa, Giseli Minatto, Gabrielli Thais de Mello & Kelly Samara Silva

  2. Northeastern Ontario Research Team for Health & Physical Activity, School of Education, Nipissing University, North Bay, Canada

    Bruno Gonçalves Galdino da Costa

  3. Group of Studies and Research in Kinanthropometry, Physical Education Department, Santa Catarina State University, Florianopolis, Brazil

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All authors contributed to the study’s conception and design. The material preparation, data collection, and analyses were performed by RMC, BGGC, GM and GTM. Intellectual contributions were made by AP and KSS. The first draft of the manuscript was written by RMC, and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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da Costa, R.M., da Costa, B.G.G., Minatto, G. et al. Cross-sectional associations of body size indicators and lifestyle behaviors with cardiorespiratory fitness among adolescents: an allometric approach. Sport Sci Health 19, 701–712 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11332-022-00952-x

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