The Effects of Daily Sleep Condition on Performances of Physical Fitness among Taiwanese Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT: Physical fitness is a powerful indicator of health. Sleep condition plays an essential role in maintaining quality of life and is an important marker that predicts physical fitness. This study aimed to determine the relationship between sleep conditions (sleep quality, sleep duration, bedtime) and multiple physical fitness indicators (body mass index (BMI), flexibility, abdominal muscle strength and endurance, cardiopulmonary endurance) in a well-characterized population of Taiwanese adults aged 23 to 65. The applied data were obtained from the National Physical Fitness Examination Survey 2014 conducted in Taiwan. We assessed the association of the sleep conditions with physical fitness performances in Taiwanese adults by using the multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) method with

SUBMITTER: Hsu CC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7143214 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature