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A Mediterranean diet is not enough for health: Physical fitness is an important additional contributor to health for the adults of tomorrow.

scientific article published on January 2007

A Single Question of Parent-Reported Physical Activity Levels Estimates Objectively Measured Physical Fitness and Body Composition in Preschool Children: The PREFIT Project

scientific article published on 10 July 2019

A Systematic Review of Fitness Apps and Their Potential Clinical and Sports Utility for Objective and Remote Assessment of Cardiorespiratory Fitness

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

A confirmatory factor analysis of the fitness of adults with intellectual disabilities

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

A favorable built environment is associated with better physical fitness in European adolescents

scientific article published on 25 September 2013

A physical education trial improves adolescents' cognitive performance and academic achievement: the EDUFIT study

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A prospective study of muscular strength and all-cause mortality in men with hypertension

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A systematic review on biomechanical characteristics of walking in children and adolescents with overweight/obesity: Possible implications for the development of musculoskeletal disorders

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

A web- and mobile phone-based intervention to prevent obesity in 4-year-olds (MINISTOP): a population-based randomized controlled trial

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A weight loss diet intervention has a similar beneficial effect on both metabolically abnormal obese and metabolically healthy but obese premenopausal women.

scientific article published on 5 April 2013

A whole brain volumetric approach in overweight/obese children: Examining the association with different physical fitness components and academic performance. The ActiveBrains project

scientific article published on 5 August 2017

Accelerometer Data Collection and Processing Criteria to Assess Physical Activity and Other Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Practical Considerations.

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Accelerometer Data Processing and Energy Expenditure Estimation in Preschoolers

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Activating brown adipose tissue through exercise (ACTIBATE) in young adults: Rationale, design and methodology.

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

Active commuting and physical activity in adolescents from Europe: results from the HELENA study

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Active commuting to school in children and adolescents: an opportunity to increase physical activity and fitness

scientific article published on 20 September 2010

Active commuting to school was inversely associated with academic achievement in primary but not secondary school students

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

Active relatives and health-related physical fitness in European adolescents: the HELENA Study

scientific article published on 21 August 2012

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet in metabolically healthy and unhealthy overweight and obese European adolescents: the HELENA study

Adiposity and Cardiovascular Risk in Children and Adolescents: Implications of the Amount of Fat Carried and Where

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Adolescent's physical activity levels and relatives' physical activity engagement and encouragement: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 8 October 2010

Aerobic physical fitness in relation to blood lipids and fasting glycaemia in adolescents: influence of weight status

scientific article published on 21 April 2006

An Overview and Update on Obesity and the Obesity Paradox in Cardiovascular Diseases

scientific article published on 05 July 2018

An exercise-based randomized controlled trial on brain, cognition, physical health and mental health in overweight/obese children (ActiveBrains project): Rationale, design and methods

scientific article published on 23 February 2016

Anthropometric Determinants of a Clustering of Lipid-Related Metabolic Risk Factors in Overweight and Non-Overweight Adolescents – Influence of Cardiorespiratory Fitness

scientific article published on 21 December 2006

Anthropometric, body composition and somatotype characteristics of elite female volleyball players from the highest Spanish league.

scientific article published on 24 July 2013

Análisis de la composición corporal en mujeres con fibromialgia

scientific article published on 17 December 2010

Are Muscular and Cardiovascular Fitness Partially Programmed at Birth? Role of Body Composition

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Are There Gender Differences in Quality of Life and Symptomatology Between Fibromyalgia Patients? ⬇️

scientific article published on April 11, 2012

Artificial neural network-based equation for estimating VO2max from the 20 m shuttle run test in adolescents.

scientific article published on 8 August 2008

Assessing Muscular Strength in Youth: Usefulness of Standing Long Jump as a General Index of Muscular Fitness

article by José Castro-Piñero et al published July 2010 in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research

Assessing health-related fitness tests in the school setting: reliability, feasibility and safety; the ALPHA Study.

scientific article published on 29 April 2010

Assessing physical fitness in preschool children: Feasibility, reliability and practical recommendations for the PREFIT battery.

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Assessment of handgrip strength in preschool children aged 3 to 5 years.

scientific article published on 3 July 2015

Association between air pollution and 24-h movement behaviours in a representative sample of Spanish youth

scientific article published in 2022

Association between chocolate consumption and fatness in European adolescents

scientific article published on 17 October 2013

Association between self-reported sleep duration and dietary quality in European adolescents

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Association between the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism and leptin in European adolescents: a possible link with energy balance control. The HELENA study.

scientific article published on 26 October 2010

Association of Breakfast Quality and Energy Density with Cardiometabolic Risk Factors in Overweight/Obese Children: Role of Physical Activity

Association of Physical Fitness With Pain in Women With Fibromyalgia: The al-Ándalus Project.

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Association of Resistance Exercise With the Incidence of Hypercholesterolemia in Men.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Association of Sedentary Behavior with Brain Structure and Intelligence in Children with Overweight or Obesity: The ActiveBrains Project

scientific article published on 12 April 2020

Association of breakfast consumption with objectively measured and self-reported physical activity, sedentary time and physical fitness in European adolescents: the HELENA (Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence) Study

scientific article published on 11 September 2013

Association of cardiorespiratory fitness with pressure pain sensitivity and clinical pain in women with fibromyalgia

scientific article published on 31 December 2014

Association of common variants of UCP2 gene with low-grade inflammation in Swedish children and adolescents; the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

Association of different levels of depressive symptoms with symptomatology, overall disease severity, and quality of life in women with fibromyalgia

scientific article published on 14 June 2015

Association of exclusive breastfeeding duration and fibrinogen levels in childhood and adolescence: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published in January 2012

Association of objectively assessed physical activity with total and central body fat in Spanish adolescents; The HELENA Study

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Association of physical activity with muscular strength and fat-free mass in adolescents: the HELENA study

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Association of physical fitness and fatness with cognitive function in women with fibromyalgia.

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Associations between the adherence to the Mediterranean diet and cardiorespiratory fitness with total and central obesity in preschool children: the PREFIT project.

scientific article published on 10 November 2017

Associations of Fat Mass and Fat-Free Mass with Physical Fitness in 4-Year-Old Children: Results from the MINISTOP Trial

scientific article published on 30 July 2016

Associations of Objectively-Assessed Physical Activity and Sedentary Time with Hippocampal Gray Matter Volume in Children with Overweight/Obesity

scientific article published on 10 April 2020

Associations of Parental Self-Efficacy With Diet, Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Swedish Preschoolers: Results From the MINISTOP Trial.

scientific article published on June 2017

Associations of Sedentary Behaviour, Physical Activity, Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Body Composition with Risk of Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders in Children with Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study

scientific article published on 20 May 2020

Associations of birth weight with serum long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in adolescents; the HELENA study

scientific article published on 5 April 2011

Associations of dietary energy density with body composition and cardiometabolic risk in children with overweight and obesity: role of energy density calculations, under-reporting energy intake and physical activity

scientific article published on 06 February 2019

Associations of low-grade inflammation with physical activity, fitness and fatness in prepubertal children; the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published on 24 July 2007

Associations of muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness with total and central body fat in adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

Associations of muscular fitness with psychological positive health, health complaints, and health risk behaviors in Spanish children and adolescents

scientific article published in January 2012

Associations of physical activity and screen time with white matter microstructure in children from the general population

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

Attention capacity in European adolescents: role of different health-related factors. The HELENA study

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Attenuation of the effect of the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism on total and central body fat by physical activity in adolescents: the HELENA study

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Bicycling to school is associated with improvements in physical fitness over a 6-year follow-up period in Swedish children

scientific article published on 7 June 2012

Birth weight and blood lipid levels in Spanish adolescents: influence of selected APOE, APOC3 and PPARgamma2 gene polymorphisms. The AVENA Study

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Birth weight and grip strength in young Swedish males: a longitudinal matched sibling analysis and across all body mass index ranges

scientific article published on 04 July 2019

Birth weight and subsequent adiposity gain in Swedish children and adolescents: a 6-year follow-up study

scientific article published on 16 June 2011

Body Composition Indices and Single and Clustered Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Adolescents: Providing Clinical-Based Cut-Points

scientific article published on 3 November 2015

Body Mass Index, the Most Widely Used But Also Widely Criticized Index: Would a Criterion Standard Measure of Total Body Fat Be a Better Predictor of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality?

scientific article published on 2 March 2016

Body composition - more to fat than first meets the eye

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Body fat distribution reference standards in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA Study.

scientific article published on 3 July 2007

Body fat is associated with blood pressure in school-aged girls with low cardiorespiratory fitness: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published on 01 October 2007

Body fat measurement in elite sport climbers: comparison of skinfold thickness equations with dual energy X-ray absorptiometry

scientific article published in March 2009

Body size at birth modifies the effect of fat mass and obesity associated (FTO) rs9939609 polymorphism on adiposity in adolescents: the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence (HELENA) study

scientific article published on 15 September 2011

Breastfeeding attenuates the effect of low birthweight on abdominal adiposity in adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 10 April 2014

Bright light therapy versus physical exercise to prevent co-morbid depression and obesity in adolescents and young adults with attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Cardiometabolic risk through an integrative classification combining physical activity and sedentary behavior in European adolescents: HELENA study

scientific article published on 27 March 2018

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Sedentary Activities Are Associated with Adiposity in Adolescents*

scientific article published on 01 June 2007

Cardiorespiratory fitness and ideal cardiovascular health in European adolescents

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

Cardiorespiratory fitness cut points to avoid cardiovascular disease risk in children and adolescents; what level of fitness should raise a red flag? A systematic review and meta-analysis.

scientific article published on 26 September 2016

Cardiorespiratory fitness modifies the association between the UCP3-55C>T (rs1800849) polymorphism and plasma homocysteine in Swedish youth

scientific article published on 27 November 2009

Cardiorespiratory fitness, adiposity, and incident asthma in adults.

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Cardiorespiratory fitness, waist circumference and liver enzyme levels in European adolescents: The HELENA cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 21 April 2017

Cardiovascular fitness in adolescents: The influence of sexual maturation status—The AVENA and EYHS studies

scientific article published on 01 November 2007

Cardiovascular fitness is negatively associated with homocysteine levels in female adolescents

scientific article published in February 2007

Cardiovascular fitness modifies the associations between physical activity and abdominal adiposity in children and adolescents: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published on 07 May 2008

Central adiposity in 9- and 15-year-old Swedish children from the European Youth Heart Study

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Clustering of multiple lifestyle behaviors and health-related fitness in European adolescents

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Cognitive Frailty and Mortality in a National Cohort of Older Adults: the Role of Physical Activity

scientific article published on 11 March 2019

Combined influence of healthy diet and active lifestyle on cardiovascular disease risk factors in adolescents

scientific article published on 12 December 2012

Commentary: At least eighty percent of brain grey matter is modifiable by physical activity: a review study.

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Comparability of accelerometer signal aggregation metrics across placements and dominant wrist cut points for the assessment of physical activity in adults

scientific article published on 03 December 2019

Comparability of published cut-points for the assessment of physical activity: Implications for data harmonization

scientific article published on 08 January 2019

Comparison of definitions for the metabolic syndrome in adolescents. The HELENA study

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Comparison of the IPAQ-A and actigraph in relation to VO2max among European adolescents: the HELENA study

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Comparisons of leisure-time physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness as predictors of all-cause mortality in men and women.

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Concurrent validity of a modified version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ-A) in European adolescents: The HELENA Study.

scientific article published in November 2008

Construct validity and test-retest reliability of the International Fitness Scale (IFIS) in Colombian children and adolescents aged 9-17.9 years: the FUPRECOL study

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Construct validity and test-retest reliability of the International Fitness Scale (IFIS) in Spanish children aged 9-12 years.

scientific article published on 18 June 2014

Contribution of bone turnover markers to bone mass in pubertal boys and girls.

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Correction: Independent and Combined Effects of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior on Blood Pressure in Adolescents: Gender Differences in Two Cross-Sectional Studies

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Correction: Inflammatory markers and bone mass in children with overweight/obesity: the role of muscular fitness

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Criterion related validity of 1/2 mile run-walk test for estimating VO2peak in children aged 6-17 years

scientific article published on 10 March 2009

Criterion-related validity of field-based fitness tests in youth: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 12 April 2009

Criterion-related validity of sit-and-reach and modified sit-and-reach test for estimating hamstring flexibility in children and adolescents aged 6-17 years

scientific article published on 7 July 2009

Critique of: "Physical Activity Assessment Between Consumer- and Research-Grade Accelerometers: A Comparative Study in Free-Living Conditions"

scientific article published on 27 February 2017

Diet quality and attention capacity in European adolescents: the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence (HELENA) study

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Dietary animal and plant protein intakes and their associations with obesity and cardio-metabolic indicators in European adolescents: the HELENA cross-sectional study

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Dietary fat intake modifies the influence of the FTO rs9939609 polymorphism on adiposity in adolescents: The HELENA cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

Differences in Brain Volume between Metabolically Healthy and Unhealthy Overweight and Obese Children: The Role of Fitness

scientific article published on 08 April 2020

Differences in areal bone mineral density between metabolically healthy and unhealthy overweight/obese children: the role of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Differences in sedentary time and physical activity between female patients with fibromyalgia and healthy controls: the al-Ándalus project.

scientific article published on 24 June 2015

Do fitter kids have bigger brains?

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Does Cardiorespiratory Fitness Attenuate the Adverse Effects of Severe/Morbid Obesity on Cardiometabolic Risk and Insulin Resistance in Children? A Pooled Analysis.

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Does a 3-month multidisciplinary intervention improve pain, body composition and physical fitness in women with fibromyalgia?

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Early life factors, gray matter brain volume and academic performance in overweight/obese children: The ActiveBrains project

scientific article published on 26 August 2019

Early life origins of low-grade inflammation and atherosclerosis risk in children and adolescents

scientific article published in November 2009

Early life programming of attention capacity in adolescents: The HELENA study

scientific article published on 11 April 2017

Effect of the Ala12 allele in the PPARgamma-2 gene on the relationship between birth weight and body composition in adolescents: the AVENA study

scientific article published in November 2007

Effects of a postural education program on school backpack habits related to low back pain in children

scientific article published on 10 November 2012

Effects of high-whey-protein intake and resistance training on renal, bone and metabolic parameters in rats.

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Effects of postural education on daily habits in children

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Effects of the dietary amount and source of protein, resistance training and anabolic-androgenic steroids on body weight and lipid profile of rats

scientific article published in January 2013

Effects on adolescents' lipid profile of a fitness-enhancing intervention in the school setting; the EDUFIT study

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Efficacy of Biodanza for treating women with fibromyalgia

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El perfil lipídico-metabólico en los adolescentes está más influido por la condición física que por la actividad física (estudio AVENA)

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Elbow position affects handgrip strength in adolescents: validity and reliability of Jamar, DynEx, and TKK dynamometers.

scientific article published in January 2010

Estimating VO2max in children aged 5-6 years through the preschool-adapted 20-m shuttle-run test (PREFIT).

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European adolescents' level of perceived stress and its relationship with body adiposity--the HELENA Study

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European normative values for physical fitness in children and adolescents aged 9-17 years: results from 2 779 165 Eurofit performances representing 30 countries

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Evaluation of the wrist-worn ActiGraph wGT3x-BT for estimating activity energy expenditure in preschool children.

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Evidence-Based Exercise Recommendations to Reduce Hepatic Fat Content in Youth- a Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Excessive sedentary time and low cardiorespiratory fitness in European adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 10 January 2011

Exclusive breastfeeding duration and cardiorespiratory fitness in children and adolescents

Exercise Versus Pharmacological Interventions for Reducing Visceral Adiposity and Improving Health Outcomes

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Extra-curricular participation in sports and socio-demographic factors in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA study

scientific article published in November 2010

Extracurricular physical activity participation modifies the association between high TV watching and low bone mass.

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Fatness and fitness in relation to functional movement quality in overweight and obese children

scientific article published on 16 October 2018

Feasibility and reliability of the Spanish version of the Youth Activity Profile questionnaire (YAP-Spain) in children and adolescents

scientific article published on 20 November 2020

Fibromyalgia has a larger impact on physical health than on psychological health, yet both are markedly affected: the al-Ándalus project.

scientific article published on 28 September 2014

Fibromyalgia's key symptoms in normal-weight, overweight, and obese female patients

scientific article published on 29 October 2011

Field-based fitness assessment in young people: the ALPHA health-related fitness test battery for children and adolescents.

scientific article published on 19 October 2010

Field-based measurement of cardiorespiratory fitness to evaluate physical activity interventions

scientific article published on 12 September 2018

Fitness and Body Mass Index During Adolescence and Disability Later in Life: A Cohort Study

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Fitness and fatness in relation with attention capacity in European adolescents: The HELENA study

scientific article published on 9 August 2016

Fitness testing as a discriminative tool for the diagnosis and monitoring of fibromyalgia

scientific article published on 24 October 2011

Fitness, cortical thickness and surface area in overweight/obese children: The mediating role of body composition and relationship with intelligence

scientific article published on 27 November 2018

Fitness, physical activity, sedentary time, inhibitory control, and neuroelectric activity in children with overweight or obesity: The ActiveBrains project

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Fitness, physical activity, working memory, and neuroelectric activity in children with overweight/obesity

scientific article published on 23 May 2019

Food and drink intake during television viewing in adolescents: the Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescence (HELENA) study

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Fragmentation of daily rhythms associates with obesity and cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescents: The HELENA study

scientific article published on 5 November 2016

Further Evidence on Cardiorespiratory Fitness as a Key Factor for the Metabolically Healthy Obese Phenotype Independent of the Race

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Grip strength cutpoints for youth based on a clinically relevant bone health outcome

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Hand span influences optimal grip span in male and female teenagers

scientific article published in October 2006

Handgrip strength test as a complementary tool in the assessment of fibromyalgia severity in women

scientific article published in January 2011

Harmonization process and reliability assessment of anthropometric measurements in a multicenter study in adolescents

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Health inequalities in urban adolescents: role of physical activity, diet, and genetics

scientific article published on 17 March 2014

Health-related fitness in adolescents: underweight, and not only overweight, as an influencing factor. The AVENA study

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Health-related physical fitness is associated with total and central body fat in preschool children aged 3 to 5 years.

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Healthy Weight and Obesity Prevention

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Heart Rate Is a Better Predictor of Cardiorespiratory Fitness Than Heart Rate Variability in Overweight/Obese Children: The ActiveBrains Project

scientific article published on 07 May 2019

Hepatic fat content and bone mineral density in children with overweight/obesity

scientific article published on 06 August 2018

High Levels of Physical Fitness Are Associated With Better Health-Related Quality of Life in Women With Fibromyalgia: The al-Ándalus Project

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

High cardiovascular fitness is associated with low metabolic risk score in children: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published in March 2007

High fat diets are associated with higher abdominal adiposity regardless of physical activity in adolescents; the HELENA study

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High fitness is associated with a healthier programming of body composition at adolescence

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Higher socioeconomic status is related to healthier levels of fatness and fitness already at 3 to 5 years of age: The PREFIT project

scientific article published on 27 December 2018

Hip and wrist accelerometers showed consistent associations with fitness and fatness in children aged 8-12 years

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Hip flexibility is the main determinant of the back-saver sit-and-reach test in adolescents

scientific article published in April 2010

Homocysteine levels in children and adolescents are associated with the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase 677C>T genotype, but not with physical activity, fitness or fatness: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published in February 2007

Ideal cardiovascular health and liver enzyme levels in European adolescents; the HELENA study

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Impact of COVID-19 Confinement on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour in Spanish University Students: Role of Gender

scientific article published on 06 January 2021

Impact of Physical Activity and Fitness in Metabolically Healthy Obesity

scientific article published in February 2018

Improvements in fitness reduce the risk of becoming overweight across puberty

scientific article published in October 2011

In Fitness and Health? A Prospective Study of Changes in Marital Status and Fitness in Men and Women ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2011

Increased Susceptibility to Plasma Lipid Peroxidation in Untrained Subjects after an Extreme Mountain Bike Challenge at Moderate Altitude

scientific article published on 01 July 2006

Independent and combined effects of physical activity and sedentary behavior on blood pressure in adolescents: gender differences in two cross-sectional studies

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Individual and combined effects of ApoE and MTHFR 677C/T polymorphisms on cognitive performance in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA study

scientific article published on 10 March 2010

Inflammatory Proteins and Muscle Strength in Adolescents

scientific article published on 01 May 2008

Inflammatory biomarkers and brain health indicators in children with overweight and obesity: The ActiveBrains project

scientific article published on 19 July 2019

Inflammatory markers and bone mass in children with overweight/obesity: the role of muscular fitness

scientific article published on 07 September 2019

Influence of Physical Activity on Bone Mineral Content and Density in Overweight and Obese Children with Low Adherence to the Mediterranean Dietary Pattern

scientific article published on 12 August 2018

Influence of socioeconomic factors on fitness and fatness in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA study

scientific article published on 17 March 2010

Influence of the MCT1-T1470A polymorphism (rs1049434) on blood lactate accumulation during different circuit weight trainings in men and women

scientific article published on 17 April 2012

Insulin sensitivity at childhood predicts changes in total and central adiposity over a 6-year period

scientific article published on 17 May 2011

Intergenerational cardiovascular disease risk factors involve both maternal and paternal BMI.

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International FItness Scale (IFIS): Construct Validity and Reliability in Women With Fibromyalgia: The al-Ándalus Project.

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

International Fitness Scale-IFIS: Validity and association with health-related quality of life in pregnant women

scientific article published on 15 November 2019

International normative 20 m shuttle run values from 1 142 026 children and youth representing 50 countries

scientific article published on 20 May 2016

Interrater reliability and time measurement validity of speed-agility field tests in adolescents

scientific article published in July 2011

Introduction and Update on Obesity and Cardiovascular Diseases 2018

scientific article published on 04 July 2018

Iron and vitamin status biomarkers and its association with physical fitness in adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 21 June 2012

Is BMI a relevant marker of fat mass in 4 year old children? Results from the MINISTOP trial

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Land- and water-based exercise intervention in women with fibromyalgia: the al-Andalus physical activity randomised controlled trial

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Lean mass index is positively associated with white matter volumes in several brain regions in children with overweight/obesity

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Leg fat might be more protective than arm fat in relation to lipid profile.

scientific article published on 7 April 2012

Letter to the Editor: Metabolically Healthy (and Fit?) Obesity

scientific article published on 01 March 2017

Levels of Physical Activity That Predict Optimal Bone Mass in Adolescents ⬇️

scientific article published on June 1, 2011

Liver enzymes and clustering cardiometabolic risk factors in European adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 17 December 2014

Longer breastfeeding is associated with increased lower body explosive strength during adolescence

scientific article published on 22 September 2010

Longitudinal Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Physical Fitness in Preschoolers

scientific article published on 20 May 2017

Longitudinal associations between weather, season, and mode of commuting to school among Spanish youths

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Low level of physical fitness in Spanish adolescents. Relevance for future cardiovascular health (AVENA study)

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Making A Case for Cardiorespiratory Fitness Surveillance Among Children and Youth.

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Markers of insulin resistance are associated with fatness and fitness in school-aged children: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published on 11 May 2007

More physically active and leaner adolescents have higher energy intake

scientific article published on 3 October 2013

Muscle strength field-based tests to identify European adolescents at risk of metabolic syndrome: The HELENA study

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Muscular Fitness Mediates the Association between 25-Hydroxyvitamin D and Areal Bone Mineral Density in Children with Overweight/Obesity

scientific article published on 14 November 2019

Muscular and cardiorespiratory fitness are independently associated with metabolic risk in adolescents: the HELENA study

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Muscular strength and markers of insulin resistance in European adolescents: the HELENA Study

scientific article published on 4 November 2011

Muscular strength as a predictor of all-cause mortality in apparently healthy population: a systematic review and meta-analysis of data from approximately 2 million men and women.

scientific article published on 6 February 2018

Muscular weakness in adolescence is associated with disability 30 years later: a population-based cohort study of 1.2 million men

scientific article published on 19 June 2018

Neural perspectives on cognitive control development during childhood and adolescence should take into account how obesity affects brain development.

scientific article published on 27 December 2017

Nutritional and pubertal status influences accuracy of self-reported weight and height in adolescents: the HELENA Study

scientific article published on 6 March 2013

Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease

scientific article published in May 2016

Obesity and Prevalence of Cardiovascular Diseases and Prognosis-The Obesity Paradox Updated

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

Obesity is rarely healthy

scientific article published on 31 May 2018

Objectively Measured Physical Activity During Physical Education and School Recess and Their Associations With Academic Performance in Youth: The UP&DOWN Study

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Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time during childhood, adolescence and young adulthood: a cohort study

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Objectively measured physical activity and sedentary time in European adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 5 April 2011

Objectively measured sedentary time and physical activity in women with fibromyalgia: a cross-sectional study

scientific article published on 20 June 2013

Objectively-measured and self-reported physical activity and fitness in relation to inflammatory markers in European adolescents: The HELENA Study

Parental body mass index and its association with body composition, physical fitness and lifestyle factors in their 4-year-old children: results from the MINISTOP trial.

scientific article published on 3 May 2017

Parental history of premature cardiovascular disease, estimated GFR, and rate of estimated GFR decline: results from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study

scientific article published on 17 January 2015

Physical Activity Is Associated with Attention Capacity in Adolescents

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Physical Activity and Risk of Metabolic Phenotypes of Obesity: A Prospective Taiwanese Cohort Study in More Than 200,000 Adults

scientific article published on 13 October 2019

Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, and the Executive Function in Children with Overweight and Obesity

scientific article published on 20 March 2019

Physical Fitness, White Matter Volume and Academic Performance in Children: Findings From the ActiveBrains and FITKids2 Projects

scientific article published on 12 February 2019

Physical activity among Spanish adolescents: relationship with their relatives' physical activity - the AVENA study.

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Physical activity and markers of insulin resistance in adolescents: role of cardiorespiratory fitness levels--the HELENA study

scientific article published on 10 January 2013

Physical activity attenuates the effect of low birth weight on insulin resistance in adolescents: findings from two observational studies

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Physical activity intensity, sedentary behavior, body composition and physical fitness in 4-year-old children: results from the ministop trial

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Physical activity without weight loss reduces the development of cardiovascular disease risk factors - a prospective cohort study of more than one hundred thousand adults

scientific article published on 20 November 2019

Physical activity, exercise and sport practice to fight against youth and childhood obesity

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Physical activity, fatness, educational level and snuff consumption as determinants of semen quality: findings of the ActiART study

scientific article published on 17 March 2015

Physical activity, fitness, and serum leptin concentrations in adolescents

scientific article published on 13 November 2011

Physical activity, fitness, weight status, and cognitive performance in adolescents

scientific article published on 31 July 2010

Physical activity, overweight and central adiposity in Swedish children and adolescents: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published on 19 November 2007

Physical activity, physical fitness, and overweight in children and adolescents: evidence from epidemiologic studies

scientific article published on 16 February 2013

Physical activity, sedentary time, and liver enzymes in adolescents: the HELENA study

scientific article published on 6 March 2014

Physical fitness and psychological health in overweight/obese children: A cross-sectional study from the ActiveBrains project

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Physical fitness and shapes of subcortical brain structures in children

scientific article published on 27 March 2017

Physical fitness effect on bone mass is mediated by the independent association between lean mass and bone mass through adolescence: a cross-sectional study

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Physical fitness in childhood and adolescence: a powerful marker of health

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Physical fitness in relation to later body composition in pre-school children

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Physical fitness in rural and urban children and adolescents from Spain

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Physical fitness levels among European adolescents: the HELENA study

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Physical fitness reference standards for preschool children: The PREFIT project

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Physical fitness reference standards in European children: the IDEFICS study

scientific article published on September 2014

Physical fitness reference standards in fibromyalgia: The al-Ándalus project.

scientific article published on 17 October 2016

Physical fitness, overweight and the risk of eating disorders in adolescents. The AVENA and AFINOS studies.

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

Physical profile of elite young motorcyclists

scientific article published on 12 September 2011

Positive health, cardiorespiratory fitness and fatness in children and adolescents

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Predictive validity of health-related fitness in youth: a systematic review.

scientific article published on 21 January 2009

Preliminary findings of a 4-month Tai Chi intervention on tenderness, functional capacity, symptomatology, and quality of life in men with fibromyalgia

scientific article published on 15 March 2011

Prevalence of Metabolically Healthy but Overweight/Obese Phenotype and Its Association With Sedentary Time, Physical Activity, and Fitness

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Prevalence of ideal cardiovascular health in European adolescents: The HELENA study

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Prevalence of overweight/obesity and fitness level in preschool children from the north compared with the south of Europe: an exploration with two countries

scientific article published on 9 November 2015

Prevalence of responders for hepatic fat, adiposity and liver enzyme levels in response to a lifestyle intervention in children with overweight/obesity: EFIGRO randomized controlled trial

scientific article published on 10 December 2019

Prevalence of severe/morbid obesity and other weight status and anthropometric reference standards in Spanish preschool children: The PREFIT project

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Prevention of diabetes in overweight/obese children through a family based intervention program including supervised exercise (PREDIKID project): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

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Psychological well-being, cardiorespiratory fitness, and long-term survival

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RE: "CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS LEVELS AMONG US ADULTS 20-49 YEARS OF AGE: FINDINGS FROM THE 1999-2004 NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEY"

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Recommendations for determining the validity of consumer wearable and smartphone step count: expert statement and checklist of the INTERLIVE network

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Recommended Levels of Physical Activity to Avoid an Excess of Body Fat in European Adolescents

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Reference values for serum lipids and lipoproteins in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA study

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Relationship of physical activity, fitness, and fatness with clustered metabolic risk in children and adolescents: the European youth heart study

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Relationship of weight status with mental and physical health in female fibromyalgia patients.

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Reliability and intermethod agreement for body fat assessment among two field and two laboratory methods in adolescents

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Reliability and validity of a screen time-based sedentary behaviour questionnaire for adolescents: The HELENA study

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Reliability of field-based fitness tests in youth.

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Reliability of health-related physical fitness tests in European adolescents. The HELENA Study.

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Reliability of the ALPHA environmental questionnaire and its association with physical activity in female fibromyalgia patients: the al-Ándalus project

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Reprint of: Healthy Weight and Obesity Prevention: JACC Health Promotion Series

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Response to "the Obesity Phenotypes in Adolescents: Some Lessons From the HELENA Study" by Dr. Rey-Lopez and Dr. de Rezende

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Response to criticisms of the 20 m shuttle run test: deflections, distortions and distractions

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Review of criterion-referenced standards for cardiorespiratory fitness: what percentage of 1 142 026 international children and youth are apparently healthy?

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Role of Cardiorespiratory Fitness on the Association Between Physical Activity and Abdominal Fat Content in Adolescents: The HELENA Study

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Role of Fitness in the Metabolically Healthy but Obese Phenotype: A Review and Update.

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Role of Physical Activity and Fitness in the Characterization and Prognosis of the Metabolically Healthy Obesity Phenotype: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Role of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in the Mental Health of Preschoolers, Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

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Role of baseline leptin and ghrelin levels on body weight and fat mass changes after an energy-restricted diet intervention in obese women: effects on energy metabolism

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Role of socio-cultural factors on changes in fitness and adiposity in youth: a 6-year follow-up study

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STRAIGHT-A STUDENTS DISLIKE PHYSICAL EDUCATION IN ADOLESCENCE: MYTH OR TRUTH? THE AVENA, AFINOS AND UP&DOWN STUDIES.

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Seasonal variation in physical activity and sedentary time in different European regions. The HELENA study

Secular trends in health-related physical fitness in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA and HELENA studies

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Sedentarism, Physical Activity, Steps, and Neurotrophic Factors in Obese Children

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Sedentary patterns and media availability in European adolescents: The HELENA study

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Self-reported and measured cardiorespiratory fitness similarly predict cardiovascular disease risk in young adults

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Serum lipids, body mass index and waist circumference during pubertal development in Spanish adolescents: the AVENA Study.

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Sexual dimorphism in the early life programming of serum leptin levels in European adolescents: the HELENA study

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Short sleep duration is associated with increased obesity markers in European adolescents: effect of physical activity and dietary habits. The HELENA study.

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Six-year trend in active commuting to school in Spanish adolescents. The AVENA and AFINOS Studies.

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Sleep duration and activity levels in Estonian and Swedish children and adolescents

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Sleep duration and cognitive performance in adolescence. The AVENA study.

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Small birth weight and later body composition and fat distribution in adolescents: the Avena study

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Smartphone App (2kmFIT-App) for Measuring Cardiorespiratory Fitness: Validity and Reliability Study

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Socio-economic factors and active commuting to school in urban Spanish adolescents: the AVENA study

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Socioeconomic status and bone mass in Spanish adolescents. The HELENA Study

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Sports participation and low back pain in schoolchildren

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Stability of the factorial structure of metabolic syndrome from childhood to adolescence: a 6-year follow-up study

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Step-Based Metrics and Overall Physical Activity in Children With Overweight or Obesity: Cross-Sectional Study

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Study protocol and rationale of the "Cogni-action project" a cross-sectional and randomized controlled trial about physical activity, brain health, cognition, and educational achievement in schoolchildren

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Survival of the Fittest-Promoting Fitness Throughout the Life Span.

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Systematic review and proposal of a field-based physical fitness-test battery in preschool children: the PREFIT battery

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The 6-minute walk test in female fibromyalgia patients: relationship with tenderness, symptomatology, quality of life, and coping strategies

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The Effect of Ponderal Index at Birth on the Relationships Between Common LEP and LEPR Polymorphisms and Adiposity in Adolescents

The Fat but Fit paradox: what we know and don't know about it

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The Impact of Physical Activity on Brain Structure and Function in Youth: A Systematic Review

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The International Fitness Scale (IFIS): usefulness of self-reported fitness in youth

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The Role of Heart Rate on the Associations Between Body Composition and Heart Rate Variability in Children With Overweight/Obesity: The ActiveBrains Project

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The Threshold Distance Associated With Walking From Home to School.

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The effect of 12-month participation in osteogenic and non-osteogenic sports on bone development in adolescent male athletes. The PRO-BONE study.

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The effect of a multidisciplinary intervention program on hepatic adiposity in overweight-obese children: protocol of the EFIGRO study.

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The effect of early menarche on later body composition and fat distribution in female adolescents: role of birth weight

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The influence of cardiorespiratory fitness on clustered cardiovascular disease risk factors and the mediator role of body mass index in youth: The UP&DOWN Study

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The intriguing association among chocolate consumption, country's economy and Nobel Laureates ⬇️

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The intriguing metabolically healthy but obese phenotype: cardiovascular prognosis and role of fitness

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The role of heart rate in the assessment of cardiac autonomic modulation with heart rate variability

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Trends in the prevalence of morbid obesity in Australian children and adolescents from 1985 to 2008: what do we know about?

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USE OF DIFFERENT ACCELEROMETER MODELS AT BASELINE AND FOLLOW-UP IN COHORT STUDIES

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USEFULNESS OF Β-HYDROXY-Β-METHYLBUTYRATE (HMB) SUPPLEMENTATION IN DIFFERENT SPORTS: AN UPDATE AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS.

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Validity and reliability of the 1/4 mile run-walk test in physically active children and adolescents

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Validity of Slaughter Equations and Bioelectrical Impedance Against Dual-Energy X-Ray Absorptiometry in Children

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Validity of resting energy expenditure predictive equations before and after an energy-restricted diet intervention in obese women

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Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents

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Video game playing time and cardiometabolic risk in adolescents: The AFINOS study

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Vigorous physical activity rather than sedentary behaviour predicts overweight and obesity in pubertal boys: a 2-year follow-up study

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[Assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness in preschool children: adaptation of the 20 metres shuttle run test].

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[Improving physical fitness in adolescents through a school-based intervention: the EDUFIT study]

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[Physically active adolescents are more likely to have a healthier cardiovascular fitness level independently of their adiposity status. The European youth heart study]

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