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Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial

OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether bicycling to school improves cardiometabolic risk factor profile and cardiorespiratory fitness among children. DESIGN: Prospective, blinded, randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Single centre study in Odense, Denmark PARTICIPANTS: 43 children previously not bicycl...

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Autores principales: Østergaard, Lars, Børrestad, Line A B, Tarp, Jakob, Andersen, Lars Bo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23117560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001307
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author Østergaard, Lars
Børrestad, Line A B
Tarp, Jakob
Andersen, Lars Bo
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Børrestad, Line A B
Tarp, Jakob
Andersen, Lars Bo
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description OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether bicycling to school improves cardiometabolic risk factor profile and cardiorespiratory fitness among children. DESIGN: Prospective, blinded, randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Single centre study in Odense, Denmark PARTICIPANTS: 43 children previously not bicycling to school were randomly allocated to control group (n=20) (ie, no change in lifestyle) or intervention group (ie, bicycling to school) (n=23). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Change in cardiometabolic risk factor score and change in cardiorespiratory fitness. RESULTS: All participants measured at baseline returned at follow-up. Based upon intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses, clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors was lowered by 0.58 SD (95% CI −1.03 to −0.14, p=0.012) in the bicycling group compared to the control group. Cardiorespiratory fitness (l O(2)/min) per se did not increase significantly more in the intervention than in the control group (β=0.0337, 95% CI −0.06 to 0.12, p=0.458). CONCLUSIONS: Bicycling to school counteracted a clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors and should thus be recognised as potential prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The intervention did, however, not elicit a larger increase in cardiorespiratory fitness in the intervention group as compared with the control group. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Registered at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01236222).
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spelling pubmed-35331142013-01-04 Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial Østergaard, Lars Børrestad, Line A B Tarp, Jakob Andersen, Lars Bo BMJ Open Public Health OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether bicycling to school improves cardiometabolic risk factor profile and cardiorespiratory fitness among children. DESIGN: Prospective, blinded, randomised controlled trial. SETTING: Single centre study in Odense, Denmark PARTICIPANTS: 43 children previously not bicycling to school were randomly allocated to control group (n=20) (ie, no change in lifestyle) or intervention group (ie, bicycling to school) (n=23). PRIMARY AND SECONDARY OUTCOME MEASURES: Change in cardiometabolic risk factor score and change in cardiorespiratory fitness. RESULTS: All participants measured at baseline returned at follow-up. Based upon intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses, clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors was lowered by 0.58 SD (95% CI −1.03 to −0.14, p=0.012) in the bicycling group compared to the control group. Cardiorespiratory fitness (l O(2)/min) per se did not increase significantly more in the intervention than in the control group (β=0.0337, 95% CI −0.06 to 0.12, p=0.458). CONCLUSIONS: Bicycling to school counteracted a clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors and should thus be recognised as potential prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The intervention did, however, not elicit a larger increase in cardiorespiratory fitness in the intervention group as compared with the control group. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Registered at http://www.clinicaltrials.gov (NCT01236222). BMJ Group 2012-10-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3533114/ /pubmed/23117560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001307 Text en Published by the BMJ Publishing Group Limited. For permission to use (where not already granted under a licence) please go to http://group.bmj.com/group/rights-licensing/permissions This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial License, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non commercial and is otherwise in compliance with the license. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/ and http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/legalcode.
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Østergaard, Lars
Børrestad, Line A B
Tarp, Jakob
Andersen, Lars Bo
Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial
title Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial
title_full Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial
title_fullStr Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial
title_short Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial
title_sort bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial
topic Public Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3533114/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23117560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001307
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