24-h movement behaviors from infancy to preschool: cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships with body composition and bone health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

New physical activity guidelines for children address all movement behaviors across the 24-h day (physical activity, sedentary behavior, sleep), but how each component relates to body composition when adjusted for the compositional nature of 24-h data is uncertain.

Aims

To i) describe 24-h movement behaviors from 1 to 5 years of age, ii) determine cross-sectional relationships with body mass index (BMI) z-score, iii) determine whether movement behaviors from 1 to 5 years of age predict body composition and bone health at 5 years.

Methods

24-h accelerometry data were collected in 380 children over 5-7 days at 1, 2, 3.5 and 5 years of age to determine the proportion of the day spent: sedentary (including wake after sleep onset), in light (LPA) and moderate-to

SUBMITTER: Taylor RW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6260686 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature