The clustering of diet, physical activity and sedentary behavior in children and adolescents: a review.

ABSTRACT: Diet, physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior are important, yet modifiable, determinants of obesity. Recent research into the clustering of these behaviors suggests that children and adolescents have multiple obesogenic risk factors. This paper reviews studies using empirical, data-driven methodologies, such as cluster analysis (CA) and latent class analysis (LCA), to identify clustering patterns of diet, PA and sedentary behavior among children or adolescents and their associations with socio-demographic indicators, and overweight and obesity. A literature search of electronic databases was undertaken to identify studies which have used data-driven methodologies to investigate the clustering of diet, PA and sedentary behavior among children and adolescents aged 5-18 years old. Eigh

SUBMITTER: Leech RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3904164 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature