Is Physical Fitness Associated with Health in Overweight and Obese Youth? A Systematic Review

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• Alternative Title:
  Kinesiol Rev (Champaign)
• Personal Author:
  Millard-Stafford, Melinda ; Becasen, Jeffrey S. ; Beets, Michael W. ; Nihiser, Allison J. ; Lee, Sarah M. ; Fulton, Janet E.
• Description:
  A systematic review of literature was conducted to examine the association between changes in health-related fitness (e.g. aerobic capacity and muscular strength /endurance) and chronic disease risk factors in overweight and/or obese youth. Studies published from 2000-2010 were included if the physical activity intervention was a randomized controlled trial and reported changes in fitness and health outcomes by direction and significance (p< 0.05) of the effect. Aerobic capacity improved in 91% and muscular fitness improved in 82% of measures reported. Nearly all studies (32 of 33) reported improvement in at least one fitness test. Changes in outcomes related to adiposity, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, metabolic, and mental/emotional health improved in 60%, 32%, 53%, 41%, and 33% of comparisons studied, respectively. In conclusion, overweight and obese youth can improve physical fitness across a variety of test measures. When fitness improves, beneficial health effects are observed in some, but not all chronic disease risk factors.
• Subjects:
  • Article
  • Aerobic capacity
  • muscular strength
  • muscular endurance
  • children
  • adolescents
  • adiposity
  • cardiovascular
  • obesity
• Source:
  Kinesiol Rev (Champaign). 2(4):233-247
• Pubmed ID:
  26457234
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4598298
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  2
• Issue:
  4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/35072/cdc_35072_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 638.14 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:202b479cb4a7c00fb0d5c822a2d13ce497e306041c713c0b3cc1bdfade71332e