One-year stability of cardiovascular diseases risk factors in Portuguese youngters

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2003

Authors

S. Guerra (Author) FADEUP; J. C. Ribeiro (Author) FADEUP; J. Oliveira (Author) FADEUP; A. Teixeira Pinto (Author) FMUP; J. W. R. Twisk (Author) Other; J. A. Duarte (Author) FADEUP; J. Mota (Author) FADEUP

Journal

Title: Pediatric Exercise Science

Vol. 15 No. 4

Pages: 428-439

ISSN: 0899-8493

Publisher: Human Kinetics Publishers, Inc.

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Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences > Clinical medicine

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-EPW

Abstract (EN): The purposes of the present study were to analyze the stability of biological risk factors for CVD (blood pressure [BP], percentage of fat mass [%FM], total cholesterol [TC]) and one behavioral/life style risk factor (physical activity [PA]), as well as to study the stability of biological risk factors clustering. The sample comprised 325 males and 367 females, aged 8-15 years old. Participants were classified as being "at risk" according to age and sex adjusted 4th quartile or the first for PA. Three biological risk factors (%FM, SBP and TC) showed higher stability (one-year interval; r = 0.9-0.5) than DBP (r = 0.3) and PAI (r = 0.3). It can be concluded that 46% of subjects with two and/or three biological risk factors at the first measurement remained with the same number of biological risk factors in the second measurement.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 12