Cardiorespiratory fitness in youth: an important marker of health: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

G Raghuveer, J Hartz, DR Lubans, T Takken, JL Wiltz… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) refers to the capacity of the circulatory and respiratory
systems to supply oxygen to skeletal muscle mitochondria for energy production needed …

European normative values for physical fitness in children and adolescents aged 9–17 years: results from 2 779 165 Eurofit performances representing 30 countries

GR Tomkinson, KD Carver, F Atkinson… - British journal of sports …, 2018 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective To develop sex-specific and age-specific normative values for the nine Eurofit
tests in European children and adolescents aged 9–17 years. Methods A systematic review …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of physical exercise on depression and anxiety in adolescent inpatients: A randomized controlled trial

A Philippot, V Dubois, K Lambrechts, D Grogna… - Journal of affective …, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Physical exercise therapy is of proven efficacy in the treatment of adults with
depression, but corresponding evidence is lacking in depressed adolescent inpatients. The …

Temporal trends in the cardiorespiratory fitness of children and adolescents representing 19 high-income and upper middle-income countries between 1981 and 2014

GR Tomkinson, JJ Lang, MS Tremblay - British journal of sports …, 2019 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objective To estimate international and national temporal trends in the cardiorespiratory
fitness (CRF) of children and adolescents and to examine relationships between temporal …

Cardiorespiratory fitness cut points to avoid cardiovascular disease risk in children and adolescents; what level of fitness should raise a red flag? A systematic review …

JR Ruiz, I Cavero-Redondo, FB Ortega… - British journal of sports …, 2016 - bjsm.bmj.com
Background Poor cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with cardiovascular disease risk
factors. Aim To perform a systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between …

European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 …

FB Ortega, B Leskošek, JJ Gil-Cosano… - British journal of sports …, 2023 - bjsm.bmj.com
Objectives (1) To develop reference values for health-related fitness in European children
and adolescents aged 6–18 years that are the foundation for the web-based, open-access …

Effects of an exercise program on cardiometabolic and mental health in children with overweight or obesity: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial

JH Migueles, C Cadenas-Sanchez… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Childhood obesity is a risk factor associated with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular
disease, and mental disorders later in life. Investigation of the parallel effects of a defined …

Changes in children's physical fitness, BMI and health-related quality of life after the first 2020 COVID-19 lockdown in England: A longitudinal study

L Basterfield, NL Burn, B Galna, H Batten… - Journal of Sports …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We aimed to assess one-year changes in physical fitness, health-related quality of life
(HRQoL) and body mass index (BMI), encompassing the 2020 COVID-19 UK lockdowns …

The Fat but Fit paradox: what we know and don't know about it

FB Ortega, JR Ruiz, I Labayen, CJ Lavie… - British Journal of Sports …, 2018 - bjsm.bmj.com
In the late 1980s, one of us (SNB) published a study that demonstrated that individuals with
a low (below first quintile= 20th percentile) cardiorespiratory fitness level had a higher risk of …

Systematic review of the relationship between 20 m shuttle run performance and health indicators among children and youth

JJ Lang, K Belanger, V Poitras, I Janssen… - Journal of Science and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Objective This systematic review aimed to summarize research that assessed the
associations between 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT) performance and indicators of …