1. Cross-cultural comparisons of aerobic and muscular fitness in Tanzanian and English youth: An allometric approach
- Author
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Alan M. Nevill, Gavin Sandercock, and Joyce Ndabi
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Rural Population ,European People ,Urban Population ,Physiology ,Physical fitness ,Social Sciences ,Tanzania ,Running ,Families ,0302 clinical medicine ,Sociology ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Medicine and Health Sciences ,Ethnicities ,Body Size ,Public and Occupational Health ,Biomechanics ,Child ,Children ,Multidisciplinary ,Schools ,biology ,Hand Strength ,Confounding ,Physiological Parameters ,England ,Medicine ,Educational Status ,Female ,Psychology ,Research Article ,Cross-Cultural Comparison ,Adolescent ,Science ,Schoolchildren ,British People ,English People ,Models, Biological ,Education ,03 medical and health sciences ,Hand strength ,parasitic diseases ,Aerobic exercise ,Humans ,Exercise ,030109 nutrition & dietetics ,business.industry ,Biological Locomotion ,Biology and Life Sciences ,030229 sport sciences ,Physical Activity ,biology.organism_classification ,Cross-cultural studies ,Age Groups ,Physical Fitness ,People and Places ,Linear Models ,Population Groupings ,Allometry ,Rural area ,business ,Demography - Abstract
Comparisons of physical fitness measures between children or within group measures over time are potentially confounded by differences in body size. We compared measures of strength (handgrip) and aerobic fitness (running-speed [20m shuttle-run]) of 10.0-15.9 year-olds from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (n = 977) with schoolchildren from England (n = 1014) matched for age and sex. Differences in fitness were analyzed using general linear models, with allometric scaling for body size (mass and stature) and further adjustments for physical activity. Mean handgrip of Tanzanians was lower than English youth (F = 165.0, P
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- 2019