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Choose Where You Live Carefully: Built Environment Differences in Children's Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Cardiometabolic Risk.
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Sports (Basel, Switzerland) [Sports (Basel)] 2021 Feb 21; Vol. 9 (2). Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Feb 21. - Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Information regarding urban-rural differences in health indicators are scarce in Brazil. This study sought to identify rural-urban differences in cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and cardiometabolic risk (CMR) in Brazilian children and adolescents whilst controlling for the important confounding variables including social economic status (SES). This is a cross-sectional study developed with children and adolescents (n = 2250, age 11.54 ± 2.76) selected from a city in the south of Brazil. CRF was estimated using a 6-minute run/walk test. CMR scores were calculated by summing different cardiometabolic risk indicators. CRF was analysed assuming a multiplicative model with allometric body-size components. CMR differences in residential locations was assessed using Analysis of caovariance (ANCOVA) adopting SES, Body Mass Index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), age and fitness as covariates. Results indicated a main effect of location ( p < 0.001) with children living a rural environment having the highest CRF, and children living in the periphery of towns having the lowest. Analysis also revealed significant main effects of location ( p < 0.001) with children living a rural environment having the lowest CMR and children living in the centre of towns having the highest. Therefore, Brazilian children living in a rural environment appear to have superior health benefits.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2075-4663
- Volume :
- 9
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Sports (Basel, Switzerland)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 33669931
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/sports9020031