Cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiometabolic risk factors in schoolchildren from Colombia : The FUPRECOL Study
The objectives of this study are to investigate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiovascular risk factors in schoolchildren and to evaluate the degree of association between overall and abdominal adiposity and cardiorespiratory fitness. A total of 1,875 children and adolescen...
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| Formato: | tesis de maestría |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | Colombia |
| Recursos: | Universidad del Rosario |
| Repositorio: | Repositorio EdocUR - U. Rosario |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repository.urosario.edu.co:10336/12107 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://doi.org/10.48713/10336_12107 http://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/12107 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Cardiorespiratory fitness Adiposity Cardiovascular risk Schoolchildren Enfermedades Enfermedades Cardiovasculares -- Factores de riesgo Obesidad en niños Promoción de la Salud |
| Resumo: | The objectives of this study are to investigate the association between cardiorespiratory fitness and cardiovascular risk factors in schoolchildren and to evaluate the degree of association between overall and abdominal adiposity and cardiorespiratory fitness. A total of 1,875 children and adolescents attending public schools in Bogota, Colombia (56.2% girls; age range of 9–17.9 years). A cardiovascular risk score (Z-score) was calculated and participants were divided into tertiles according to low and high levels of overall (sum of the skinfold thicknesses) and abdominal adiposity. Schoolchildren with a high level of overall adiposity demonstrated significant differences in seven of the 10 variables analyzed (i.e. systolic and diastolic blood pressure, triglycerides, triglycerides/HDL-c ratio, total cholesterol, glucose and cardiovascular risk score). Schoolchildren with high levels of both overall and abdominal adiposity and low cardiorespiratory fitness had the least favorable cardiovascular risk factors score. These findings may be relevant to health promotion in Colombian youth. |
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