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Negative associatio...
Negative associations between step-up height and waist circumference in 8-year-old children and their parents
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- Hellénius, Mai-Lis (author)
- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Andermo, Susanne (author)
- Department of Neurobiology Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Sweden; Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Nordenfelt, Anja (author)
- The Foundation A Healthy Generation, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Lidin, Matthias (author)
- Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Nyberg, Lillemor A., 1955- (author)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för medicinska vetenskaper,Region Örebro län,Department of Medical Sciences
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- Nyberg, Gisela (author)
- Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Physical Activity and Health, The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden
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- 2024
- 2024
- English.
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In: Acta Paediatrica. - : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 0803-5253 .- 1651-2227.
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- AIM: To study cross-sectional relationships between step-up height and waist circumference (WC), a potential proxy for sarcopenic obesity, in Swedish children and parents.METHODS: Participants were recruited from Swedish schools in disadvantaged areas in 2017. Height, body weight, WC and maximal step-up height were measured in 67 eight-year-old children and parents: 58 mothers, with a mean age of 38.5 and 32 fathers, with a mean age of 41.3. Sedentary time and physical activity were registered by an accelerometer. Associations between maximal step-up height and WC were analysed using Pearson's correlation and adjusted linear regression.RESULTS: Abdominal obesity, WC ≥ 66 centimetres (cm) in children, ≥88 cm in women and ≥102 cm in men, was observed in 13% and 35% of girls and boys, and in 53% and 34% among mothers and fathers, respectively. Negative associations between maximal step-up height and WC were found for children (r = -0.37, p = 0.002) and adults (mothers r = -0.58, p < 0.001, fathers r = -0.48, p = 0.006). The associations remained after adjustments for height, body mass index (BMI) and physical activity in adults. Reduced muscle strength clustered within families (r = 0.54, p < 0.001).CONCLUSION: Associations between reduced muscle strength and abdominal obesity were observed in children and parents. Sarcopenic obesity may need more attention in children. Our findings support family interventions.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Sarcopenic obesity
- abdominal obesity
- family
- muscle strength
- physical activity
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