Step-Based Metrics and Overall Physical Activity in Children With Overweight or Obesity: Cross-Sectional Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Best-practice early interventions to increase physical activity (PA) in children with overweight and obesity should be both feasible and evidence based. Walking is a basic human movement pattern that is practical, cost-effective, and does not require complex movement skills. However, there is still a need to investigate how much walking-as a proportion of total PA level-is performed by children who are overweight and obese in order to determine its utility as a public health strategy.

Objective

This study aimed to (1) investigate the proportion of overall PA indicators that are explained by step-based metrics and (2) study step accumulation patterns relative to achievement of public health recommendations in children who are overweight and obese.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Migueles JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7218606 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature