24-Hour Movement Behaviors in Children with Chronic Disease and Their Healthy Peers: A Case-Control Study.

ABSTRACT: Time spent in 24-h movement behaviors is important to health and wellbeing in childhood, but levels of these behaviors in children with chronic disease are unknown. A case-control-study included 80 children with chronic disease; 20 with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), 20 with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), 20 with congenital heart disease (CHD), 20 with cystic fibrosis (CF); pair-matched individually for age, sex, and timing of measures with 80 healthy children. Habitual time spent in movement behaviors and step counts were all measured with an activPAL accelerometer over 7 days. Comparisons against recommendations and differences between the groups were made. Time spent in physical activity and step counts/day were significantly lower in T1DM and CHD groups compared to controls. On

SUBMITTER: Elmesmari RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8910254 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature