Association between physical activity patterns and anthropometric characteristics of adults: an issue of public health?

Clemente Filipe Manuel; Martins Fernando Manuel Lourenço; Nikolaidis Pantelis Theodoros; Mendes Rui Sousa

doi:10.1515/bhk-2017-0018

Biomedical Human Kinetics (Sep 2017)

Association between physical activity patterns and anthropometric characteristics of adults: an issue of public health?

Clemente Filipe Manuel,
Martins Fernando Manuel Lourenço,
Nikolaidis Pantelis Theodoros,
Mendes Rui Sousa

Affiliations

Clemente Filipe Manuel: Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer, Desporto e Lazer, Portugal
Martins Fernando Manuel Lourenço: Instituto de Telecomunicações, Delegação da Covilhã, Portugal
Nikolaidis Pantelis Theodoros: Department of Physical and Cultural Education, Hellenic Army Academy, Athens, Greece
Mendes Rui Sousa: Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Coimbra College of Education, RoboCorp, ASSERT, Coimbra, Portugal

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/bhk-2017-0018
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 124 – 132

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Study aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between objectively measured daily physical activity (PA) and body fat mass (BF) and body mass index (BMI). A further aim was to analyse the variance of PA between quartiles of BF and BMI.

physical activity - accelerometry - body fat mass - body mass index - young adults

Published in Biomedical Human Kinetics

ISSN: 2080-2234 (Online)
Publisher: Sciendo
Country of publisher: Poland
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Sports medicine; Science: Physiology
Website: https://sciendo.com/journal/BHK

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