How does a physical activity programme in elementary school affect fracture risk? A prospective controlled intervention study in Malmo, Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Recent evidence from the 7-year follow-up of the Pediatric Osteoporosis Prevention (POP) study indicates an inverse correlation between years of participation in a physical activity (PA) intervention and fracture risk in children. However, we could not see a statistically significant reduction in fracture risk, which urged for an extension of the intervention.

Setting

The study was conducted in 4 neighbouring elementary schools, where 1 school functioned as intervention school.

Participants

We included all children who began first grade in these 4 schools between 1998 and 2012. This resulted in 1339 children in the intervention group and 2195 children in the control group, all aged 6-8 years at the state of the study.

Intervention

We launched an 8-ye

SUBMITTER: Coster ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5337742 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature