Blar i Norges idrettshøgskole på emneord "child"
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Sport and exercise as contributors to the health of nations
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-07-07)Self-reported rates of participation in sport vary by country. In the UK, about 40% of men and women aged 16 years or older participate in at least one sport every week. Although few data exist to assess trends for ... -
Stability and change in screen-based sedentary behaviours and associated factors among Norwegian children in the transition between childhood and adolescence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-02-06)Background: In order to inform interventions to prevent sedentariness, more longitudinal studies are needed focusing on stability and change over time in multiple sedentary behaviours. This paper investigates patterns ... -
The effectiveness of exercise interventions to prevent sports injuries: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-10-07)BACKGROUND: Physical activity is important in both prevention and treatment of many common diseases, but sports injuries can pose serious problems. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether physical activity exercises ... -
The influence of exercise on metabolic syndrome in youth: a review
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-03)The metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of, dyslipidemia, hypertension, glucose intolerance, and central obesity, or waist circumference that places individuals at high risk for developing cardiovascular or heart ... -
Tracking of cardiometabolic risk in a Brazilian schoolchildren cohort: A 3-year longitudinal study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Background: Clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors is a sign of detrimental health. Tracking is a term used to describe a variable longitudinal stability across time. High tracking provides the chance to determine which ... -
Tracking of clustered cardiovascular disease risk factors from childhood to adolescence
(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
(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 ... -
Validation of thigh-based accelerometer estimates of postural allocation in 5–12 year-olds
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-03)Objectives: To validate activPAL3™ (AP3) for classifying postural allocation, estimating time spent in postures and examining the number of breaks in sedentary behaviour (SB) in 5–12 year-olds. Design: Laboratory-based ... -
Variation in human water turnover associated with environmental and lifestyle factors
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Water is essential for survival, but one in three individuals worldwide (2.2 billion people) lacks access to safe drinking water. Water intake requirements largely reflect water turnover (WT), the water used by the body ... -
Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe: Harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Background: Levels of physical activity and variation in physical activity and sedentary time by place and person in European children and adolescents are largely unknown. The objective of the study was to assess the ... -
Waist circumference is related to low-grade inflammation in youth
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Objectives. To examine markers of infl ammation in 9- and 15-year-olds with high waist circumference and compare these with controls, and to examine the relationships between infl ammatory markers and cardiovascular disease ... -
Weather and children's physical activity; How and why do relationships vary between countries?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Background: Globally most children do not engage in enough physical activity. Day length and weather conditions have been identified as determinants of physical activity, although how they may be overcome as barriers is ... -
‘Winter children’ : an ethnographically inspired study of children being-and-becoming well-versed in snow and ice
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)For many children living in Northern and mountainous regions of the world, playing in snow is enticing and connotes childhood for many adults. Even so, researchers have paid little attention to children’s play in/with snow ...