… and sedentary behaviors were studied in 44 boys and 44 girls who wore accelerometers and
recorded their television watching behaviors. … physical activity in boys but not in girls. The …

… However, there was no significant difference in BMI between boys and girls. Table 2 shows
the sedentary behaviours and physical activity patterns of Kuwaiti adolescent boys and girls. …

… with girls, boys showed greater increases in physical activity when sedentary behaviors
were reduced and greater decreases in physical activity when sedentary behaviors were …

… Overweight/obese children were significantly more sedentary overall and reported higher …
% of boys and 46% of girls met screen time but not PA guidelines; 28% of boys and 5% of girls …

… more observations from girls (n = 680; 54.2%) than boys (n = 574; 45.8%), and girls had a
significantly (P < .001) higher FMI than boys at all 3 time points. In both girls and boys, mean …

… higher in boys than girls. Thus, the overall pattern of obesogenic behaviors was not uniformly
better in one gender over another: boys reported more PA but also more SB; girls reported …

… Exceeding 2 hrs of daily total screen-time was negatively associated with MVPA for both
boys and girls, and with VPA for girls. When investigating the different types of screen-based …

… /exercise and technology-based sedentary behaviors across weekdays for boys and girls. …
sedentary behaviors in youth [7], girls reported more socializing sedentary behaviors than boys…

… with other leisure-time sedentary behaviors for both boys and girls for weekdays and weekends.
… key sedentary behaviors, such as computer use in boys and motorized transport in girls. …

… We used the Student’s t-test, the Mann-Whitney U test and the Chi-square test to compare
background characteristics, PA and sedentary behavior between the boys and the girls. …