Browsing Brage NIH by Author "Froberg, Karsten"
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Recommended aerobic fitness level for metabolic health in children and adolescents: a study of diagnostic accuracy
Adegboye, Amanda R. A.; Anderssen, Sigmund A.; Froberg, Karsten; Sardinha, Luis B.; Heitmann, Berit L.; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Kolle, Elin; Andersen, Lars Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Objective To define the optimal cut-off for low aerobic fitness and to evaluate its accuracy to predict clustering of risk factors for cardiovascular disease in children and adolescents. Design Study of diagnostic ... -
Screen time viewing behaviors and isometric trunk muscle strength in youth
Grøntved, Anders; Ried-Larsen, Mathias; Froberg, Karsten; Wedderkopp, Niels; Brage, Søren; Kristensen, Peter Lund; Andersen, Lars Bo; Møller, Niels Christian (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-10)Purpose: The objective of this study was to examine the association of screen time viewing behavior with isometric trunk muscle strength in youth. Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out including 606 adolescents ... -
Screen-viewing and the home TV environment: The European Youth Heart Study
Jago, Russell; Page, Angie S.; Froberg, Karsten; Sardinha, Luis B.; Klasson-Heggebø, Lena; Andersen, Lars Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-08-03)Objective Examine if home environmental factors are associated with screen-viewing. Methods Data are for 2670, 3rd and 9th grade participants in Denmark, Portugal, Estonia and Norway collected between 1997 and 2000. ... -
Sex differences in the association between level of childhood interleukin-6 and insulin resistance in adolescence
Bugge, Anna; El-Naaman, Bianca; McMurray, Robert G.; Froberg, Karsten; Nielsen, Claus Henrik; Müller, Klaus; Andersen, Lars Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-01-05)The purpose of this study was to determine whether levels of interleukin-6 (IL-6) in childhood are related to insulin resistance in adolescence. Further, to explore how fatness and cardiorespiratory fitness ( V O 2 p e a ... -
Six-Year Change in Youth Physical Activity and Effect on Fasting Insulin and HOMA-IR
Jago, Russell; Wedderkopp, Niels; Kristensen, Peter Lund; Møller, Niels C.; Andersen, Lars Bo; Cooper, Ashley R.; Froberg, Karsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-10-09)Background There is a shortage of longitudinal data analyzing associations between physical activity and indicators of insulin resistance among children and adolescents after accounting for adiposity change. To guide ... -
Symptoms of depression in young adulthood is associated with unfavorable clinical- and behavioral cardiovascular disease risk factors
Klakk, Heidi; Kristensen, Peter Lund; Andersen, Lars Bo; Froberg, Karsten; Møller, Niels Christian; Grøntved, Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Depression in young adults is a growing concern to public health. This study aims to investigate if depression status in young adults is related to clinical and behavioral cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors. ... -
The acute effects of short bouts of exercise on inhibitory control in adolescents
Gejl, Anne Kær; Bugge, Anna; Ernst, Martin Thomsen; Tarp, Jakob; Hillman, Charles H.; Have, Mona; Froberg, Karsten; Andersen, Lars Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)Purpose: The main objective of the study was to investigate the effect of short bouts of aerobic exercise with various exercise intensities on inhibitory control using a flanker task in adolescents. Methods: The study used ... -
Tracking of clustered cardiovascular disease risk factors from childhood to adolescence
Bugge, Anna; El-Naaman, Bianca; McMurray, Robert G.; Froberg, Karsten; Andersen, Lars Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-09)Clustering of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors has been found in children as young as 9 y of age. However, the stability of this clustering over the course of childhood has yet to be determined. The purpose of ... -
Unit-specific calibration of Actigraph accelerometers in a mechanical setup - Is it worth the effort? The effect on random output variation caused by technical inter-instrument variability in the laboratory and in the field
Møller, Niels C.; Korsholm, Lars; Kristensen, Peter Lund; Andersen, Lars Bo; Wedderkopp, Niels; Froberg, Karsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2008-04-11)Conclusion: The application of unit-specific calibration factors to data collected during free living conditions had no apparent effect on inter-instrument variability. In all probability, the effect of technical calibration ... -
Youth screen-time behaviour is associated with cardiovascular risk in young adulthood: The European Youth Heart Study
Grøntved, Anders; Ried-Larsen, Mathias; Møller, Niels C.; Kristensen, Peter Lund; Wedderkopp, Niels; Froberg, Karsten; Hu, Frank B.; Ekelund, Ulf; Andersen, Lars Bo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-07-05)Aims: We prospectively examined the association of TV viewing, computer use, and total screen time in adolescence, and change in these behaviours, with cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in young adulthood. Methods ...