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ABSTRACT: Background
Little is known on how context-specific sedentary behaviors (SB) affect adiposity. This study aimed to investigate compositional associations between context-specific SB and adiposity and estimate the differences in adiposity associated with replacing school and out-of-school SB with physical activity (PA).Methods
This study included 336 children and adolescents. Time spent in SB and PA was estimated using multi-day 24-hour raw accelerometer data. SB and PA were specified for school and out-of-school times. Fat mass percentage (FM%) and fat mass index (FMI) were used as adiposity indicators. A compositional isotemporal substitution model was used to estimate differences in adiposity associated with one-to-one reallocations of time from context-specific SB to PA.Results
Participants spent approximately two thirds of their school and out-of-school time being sedentary. Relative to the remaining 24-h movement behaviors, significant associations between out-of-school SB and adiposity were found in both boys (?ilr1 = 0.63, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.03-1.22 for FM%; ?ilr1 = 0.76, 95% CI = 0.03-1.49 for FMI) and girls (?ilr1 = 0.62, 95% CI = 0.25-0.98 for FM%; ?ilr1 = 0.80, 95% CI = 0.28-1.32 for FMI). Replacing 30?min/day of out-of-school SB with out-of-school light PA decreased FM% by 10.1% (95% CI = 3.3-17.9) and FMI by 14% (95% CI = 2.7-24) in girls. No significant associations were found for school SB.Conclusions
A reduction of out-of-school SB in favor of light PA should be advocated as an appropriate target for interventions and strategies to prevent childhood obesity.
SUBMITTER: Gaba A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7842010 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gába Aleš A Dygrýn Jan J Štefelová Nikola N Rubín Lukáš L Hron Karel K Jakubec Lukáš L
Environmental health and preventive medicine 20210127 1
<h4>Background</h4>Little is known on how context-specific sedentary behaviors (SB) affect adiposity. This study aimed to investigate compositional associations between context-specific SB and adiposity and estimate the differences in adiposity associated with replacing school and out-of-school SB with physical activity (PA).<h4>Methods</h4>This study included 336 children and adolescents. Time spent in SB and PA was estimated using multi-day 24-hour raw accelerometer data. SB and PA were specif ...[more]