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https://doi.org/10.5671/ca.48.3.6
BMI or Physical Fitness: What Matters Most for Children's Health? A Case for Apulia
Domenico Monacis
; Pegaso University, Department of Education and Sports Sciences, Naples, Italy
Angel-Alex Haisan
; “1 Decembrie 1918” University of Alba Iulia, Department of Physical Education and Sports, Alba Iulia, Romania
Dario Colella
; University of Salento, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, Lecce, Italy
Sažetak
The present study aims to evaluate the validity of a model based on BMI and the components of physical fitness to classify children into groupsof low-medium-high levels of physical efficiency and health, in a sample of 500 children aged 8–13 years (female = 262, male = 238). After collecting anthropometric data, the assessment of physical fitness has been carried out with SLJ, 10x4 and 6MWT. Children were then assigned to low, medium, and high physical fitness categories a priori based on their BMI-for-age Z-scores. The discriminatory analysis showed that only 71.3% of cases were correctly classified into physical fitness categories: the most discriminating variable to assign children to one group rather than another is not the BMI (p=0,225) but the 6MWT (p<0,01), as an indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness. This study provides new insights about the fundamental role in developing physical fitness during childhood.
Ključne riječi
anthropometrics, percentile Z-scores, physical fitness, BMI, children
Hrčak ID:
329770
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Datum izdavanja:
1.9.2024.
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