List of works by Rute Santos

"GET-UP" study rationale and protocol: a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate the effects of reduced sitting on toddlers' cognitive development

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A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines - The Australian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the early years (Birth to 5 years): an integration of physical activity, sedentary behavior, and sleep.

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

A proposed adaptation of the European Foundation for Quality Management Excellence Model to physical activity programmes for the elderly - development of a quality self-assessment tool using a modified Delphi process

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

Ability of Measures of Adiposity in Identifying Adverse Levels of Inflammatory and Metabolic Markers in Adolescents

scientific article published on 29 January 2016

Ability of Nontraditional Risk Factors and Inflammatory Biomarkers for Cardiovascular Disease to Identify High Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents: Results From the LabMed Physical Activity Study

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Adherence to 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years and associations with social-cognitive development among Australian preschool children

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Adherence to Southern European Atlantic Diet and physical fitness on the atherogenic index of plasma in adolescents

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Adiposity as a full mediator of the influence of cardiorespiratory fitness and inflammation in schoolchildren: The FUPRECOL Study

scientific article published on 26 April 2017

Association between Breaks in Sitting Time and Adiposity in Australian Toddlers: results from the Get-Up! Study

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Association between Leptin, Adiponectin, and Leptin/Adiponectin Ratio with Clustered Metabolic Risk Factors in Portuguese Adolescents: The LabMed Physical Activity Study.

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Association between physical activity, sedentary time, and healthy fitness in youth

scientific article published on 01 March 2015

Association between serum adiponectin levels and muscular fitness in Portuguese adolescents: LabMed Physical Activity Study.

scientific article published on 19 February 2016

Association of Dairy Product Consumption with Metabolic and Inflammatory Biomarkers in Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional Analysis from the LabMed Study

scientific article published on 21 September 2019

Associations between fruit and vegetable variety and low-grade inflammation in Portuguese adolescents from LabMed Physical Activity Study

scientific article published on 14 June 2017

Associations between gross motor coordination and academic achievement in elementary school children.

scientific article published on 20 December 2012

Associations between gross motor skills and physical activity in Australian toddlers.

scientific article published on 20 December 2017

Associations between health-related quality of life and body mass index in Portuguese adolescents: LabMed physical activity study

scientific article published on 12 February 2018

Associations between sedentary behavior and motor coordination in children.

scientific article published on 15 August 2012

Biocultural Predictors of Motor Coordination Among Prepubertal Boys and Girls.

scientific article published in February 2018

C-reactive protein, physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness in Portuguese adolescents: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published in September 2015

Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Blood Pressure: A Longitudinal Analysis

scientific article published in January 2018

Cardiorespiratory fitness and inflammatory profile on cardiometabolic risk in adolescents from the LabMed Physical Activity Study.

scientific article published on 11 September 2017

Cardiorespiratory fitness predicts later body mass index, but not other cardiovascular risk factors from childhood to adolescence

scientific article published on 01 January 2009

Central fat influences cardiac autonomic function in obese and overweight girls

scientific article published on 3 June 2011

Changes in muscular fitness and its association with blood pressure in adolescents

scientific article published on 08 May 2018

Comparison of different VO(2max) equations in the ability to discriminate the metabolic risk in Portuguese adolescents.

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Compliance with physical activity guidelines in preschool children

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Compliance with the Australian 24-hour movement guidelines for the early years: associations with weight status

scientific article published on 20 November 2017

Correlates of Sleep Duration in Early Childhood: A Systematic Review

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Correlates of sedentary time in young children: A systematic review

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Cycling to School and Body Composition, Physical Fitness, and Metabolic Syndrome in Children and Adolescents.

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

Daily differences in patterns of physical activity among overweight/obese children engaged in a physical activity program

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Dietary inflammatory index and inflammatory biomarkers in adolescents from LabMed physical activity study.

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

Effects of a Short-Term Recreational Team Handball-Based Programme on Physical Fitness and Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health of 33-55-Year-Old Men: A Pilot Study

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Environment perception and leisure-time physical activity in Portuguese high school students.

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

Environmental characteristics of early childhood education and care centres and young children's weight status: A systematic review

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

Environmental perceptions and its associations with physical fitness and body composition in adolescents: longitudinal results from the LabMed Physical Activity Study

scientific article published on 10 April 2018

Evaluation of physical activity programmes for elderly people - a descriptive study using the EFQM' criteria.

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Evaluation of physical activity programmes for the elderly - exploring the lessons from other sectors and examining the general characteristics of the programmes

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Flexibility is associated with motor competence in schoolchildren

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Gross motor skills in toddlers: Prevalence and socio-demographic differences.

scientific article published on 19 May 2018

High levels of C-reactive protein are associated with reduced vagal modulation and low physical activity in young adults.

scientific article published on 6 July 2010

Impact of compliance with different guidelines on physical activity during pregnancy and perceived barriers to leisure physical activity

scientific article published on 7 April 2014

Independent and Combined Effects of Sex and Biological Maturation on Motor Coordination and Performance in Prepubertal Children

scientific article published in April 2016

Longitudinal association between ideal cardiovascular health status and muscular fitness in adolescents: The LabMed Physical Activity Study

scientific article published on 28 May 2018

Longitudinal associations between body composition and regional fat distribution and later attained height at school entry among preschool children predisposed to overweight

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Longitudinal associations between motor competence and different physical activity intensities: LabMed physical activity study

scientific article published on 12 July 2018

Low-grade inflammation and muscular fitness on insulin resistance in adolescents: Results from LabMed Physical Activity Study

scientific article published on 24 November 2017

Maternal perceptions of children's weight status.

scientific article published on 20 April 2012

Metabolic syndrome, physical activity and cardiac autonomic function

scientific article published on 01 May 2012

Muscular fitness and cardiorespiratory fitness are associated with health-related quality of life: Results from labmed physical activity study

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Muscular fitness and metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers in adolescents: Results from LabMed Physical Activity Study

scientific article published on 23 November 2016

Muscular fitness, Southern European Atlantic Diet and inflammation in adolescents. Azorean Physical Activity and Health Study II.

scientific article published on 2 November 2017

Muscular fitness, adherence to the Southern European Atlantic Diet and cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescents

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Nutritional status, biological maturation and cardiorespiratory fitness in Azorean youth aged 11-15 years.

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Objectively measured sedentary time and academic achievement in schoolchildren.

scientific article published on 26 April 2016

Parental education and physical activity in pre-school children

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Parental education level is associated with clustering of metabolic risk factors in adolescents independently of cardiorespiratory fitness, adherence to the Mediterranean diet, or pubertal stage

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Physical activity in adults with controlled and uncontrolled asthma as compared to healthy adults: a cross-sectional study.

scientific article published on 15 January 2013

Physical and Physiological Demands of Recreational Team Handball for Adult Untrained Men.

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Prevalence of objectively measured sedentary behavior in early years: Systematic review and meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 December 2018

Prevalence of overweight and obesity among Portuguese youth: a study in a representative sample of 10-18-year-old children and adolescents

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Prevalence of overweight and obesity in a Portuguese sample of adults: results from the Azorean Physical Activity and Health Study

scientific article published in January 2008

Prevalence of overweight, obesity, and abdominal obesity in a representative sample of Portuguese adults

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Pubertal Stage, Body Mass Index, and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents in Bogotá, Colombia: The Cross-Sectional Fuprecol Study.

scientific article published on 22 June 2017

Relationship of objective measurement of physical activity during school hours and BMI in preschool children

scientific article published in October 2011

Role of sleep duration and sleep-related problems in the metabolic syndrome among children and adolescents.

scientific article published on 15 January 2018

Sedentary time and blood pressure in Australian toddlers: The get-up study longitudinal results

scientific article published on 08 September 2020

Sensitivity and specificity of different measures of adiposity to distinguish between low/high motor coordination

scientific article published on 7 September 2014

Serum Adiponectin Levels and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Nonoverweight and Overweight Portuguese Adolescents: The LabMed Physical Activity Study.

scientific article published on 11 November 2016

Sitting time and body mass index, in a Portuguese sample of men: results from the Azorean Physical Activity and Health Study (APAHS).

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Sodium and potassium urinary excretion and dietary intake: a cross-sectional analysis in adolescents.

scientific article published on 11 April 2016

Study protocol: using the Q-STEPS to assess and improve the quality of physical activity programmes for the elderly

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The Effects of Workplace Physical Activity Programs on Musculoskeletal Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

scientific article published on May 2016

The Preschool Activity, Technology, Health, Adiposity, Behaviour and Cognition (PATH-ABC) cohort study: rationale and design

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The effect of a physical activity program on decreasing physical disability indicated by musculoskeletal pain and related symptoms among workers: a pilot study

scientific article published in January 2014

The importance of physical education classes in pre‐school children

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

The independent associations of sedentary behaviour and physical activity on cardiorespiratory fitness.

scientific article published on 14 February 2013

The relationship of cardiorespiratory fitness, birth weight and parental BMI on adolescents' obesity status

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Vigorous physical activity and vagal modulation in young adults

scientific article published on 01 December 2009

Vitamin D intake and cardiometabolic risk factors in adolescents

scientific article published on 4 February 2014

Waist circumference percentiles for Portuguese children and adolescents aged 10 to 18 years

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