Study on Physical Activity Level, Health-Related Fitness, Body Composition, Blood Pressure, and Blood Glucose in Adults with Intellectual Disability

Background and Objectives:Early menarche predicts higher body mass index (BMI) and adiposity in adult life, and it has been associated with risk factors of cardiometabolic diseases such as elevated triglycerides and waist circumferences also higher risk of adult diabetes. This study aims to explore early-menarche as determinant factor for metabolic-risks among adolescent girls aged 13-15 years old.Methods and Study Design:This cross-sectional study was undertaken in adolescent girls aged 13-15 years in all five municipalities in Jakarta-Indonesia, from January 2014 to Mei 2016. Data collected by using standardized measures for dietary intake, nutritional status indicators, physical activity level, blood pressure, blood glucose and lipid profile, and statistically analyzed by independent-t or Mann-Whitney test, and Pearson or Spearman correlation test.Results and Conclusions:A total of 194 adolescent girls were participated in this study. Early menarche was found in 22.68% of all subjects. There was no association between menarche status and daily macronutrients intake pattern and physical activity level score. Early menarche subjects had significantly higher BMI (p<0.001), CDC-percentile (p<0.001), WHO Z-score (p<0.001), and waist circumference values (p=0.02). Furthermore, early menarche subjects also had higher systolic blood pressure (p=0.035), total cholesterol level (p=0.028), LDL-cholesterol level (p=0.013), and triglyceride level (p=0.026). There was no association between menarche status and diastolic blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, HDL-C level, lipid profile ratio. In conclusion, early menarche is an important determinant factor of metabolic risks, and balance between dietary intake and physical activity level should be prioritized among them.

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Relationships Between Physical Activity Level, Health-Related Fitness, Academic Achievement, and Academic Self-Concept

TED EĞİTİM VE BİLİM ◽

10.15390/eb.2020.8343 ◽

2020 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Emre Bilgin ◽

Yeşim Bulca ◽

Gıyasettin Demirhan

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Academic Achievement ◽

Physical Activity Level ◽

Activity Level ◽

Self Concept ◽

Health Related ◽

Health Related Fitness

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Body Composition in Male Physical Education University Students in View of their Physical Activity Level

Human Movement ◽

10.2478/humo-2013-0024 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Aleksandra Stachoń ◽

Jadwiga Pietraszewska

Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Body Composition ◽

Physical Education ◽

University Students ◽

Physical Activity Level ◽

Activity Level

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Serum Myostatin Levels Are Higher in Fitter, More Active, and Non-Frail Long-Term Nursing Home Residents and Increase after a Physical Exercise Intervention

Gerontology ◽

10.1159/000494137 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 65 (3) ◽

pp. 229-239 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Haritz Arrieta ◽

Gotzone Hervás ◽

Chloe Rezola-Pardo ◽

Fátima Ruiz-Litago ◽

Miren Iturburu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Physical Activity ◽

Body Composition ◽

Nursing Home ◽

Physical Fitness ◽

Physical Activity Level ◽

Exercise Intervention ◽

Nursing Home Residents ◽

Exercise Program ◽

Activity Level

Background: Myostatin has been proposed as a candidate biomarker for frailty and sarcopenia. However, the relationship of myostatin with these conditions remains inconclusive. Objective: To determine the association of serum myostatin concentration with body composition, physical fitness, physical activity level, and frailty in long-term nursing home residents. We also aimed to ascertain the effect of an exercise program on myostatin levels. Methods: We obtained study data on 112 participants from long-term nursing homes. Participants were randomly assigned to a control or an intervention group and performed a 6-month multicomponent exercise program. Serum myostatin levels were analyzed by ELISA. Assessments also included body composition (anthropometry and bioelectrical impedance), physical fitness (Senior Fitness Test), physical activity level (accelerometry), and frailty (Fried frailty criteria, Clinical Frailty Scale, and Tilburg frailty indicator). Results: The concentration of myostatin at baseline was positively correlated with: a leaner body composition (p < 0.05), and a higher number of steps per day and light and moderate-vigorous physical activity in women (p < 0.005); greater upper and lower limb strength, endurance, and poorer flexibility (p < 0.05) in men; and better performance (less time) in the 8-ft timed up-and-go test in both women (p < 0.01) and men (p < 0.005). We observed higher concentrations of serum myostatin in non-frail than in frail participants (p < 0.05). Additionally, we found that the implemented physical exercise intervention, which was effective to improve physical fitness, increased myostatin concentration in men (p < 0.05) but not in women. The improvements in physical condition were related with increases in serum myostatin only in men (p < 0.05–0.01). Conclusions: Higher serum levels of myostatin were found to be associated with better physical fitness. The improvements in physical fitness after the intervention were positively related to increases in myostatin concentrations in men. These results seem to rule out the idea that high serum myostatin levels are indicative of frailty in long-term nursing home residents. However, although the direction of association was opposite to that expected for the function of myostatin, the use of this protein as a biomarker for physical fitness, rather than frailty, merits further study.

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