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Simple reaction time and obesity in children: whether there is a relationship?

OBJECTIVE: Reaction time (RT) testing is one of the oldest diagnostic methods used in modern psychology, and is known as simple and sensitive cognitive test. It has been recently reported that RT is related to obesity in young, adult and elderly individuals. However, most of the studies included sma...

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Autores principales: Moradi, Akbar, Esmaeilzadeh, Samad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5661909/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29165104
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0612-0
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description OBJECTIVE: Reaction time (RT) testing is one of the oldest diagnostic methods used in modern psychology, and is known as simple and sensitive cognitive test. It has been recently reported that RT is related to obesity in young, adult and elderly individuals. However, most of the studies included small sample of participants, used just body mass index (BMI) as body obesity index, and did not consider some potential confounders such as age, socioeconomic status and physical activity in their studies. Furthermore, there is little and contradictory results for children. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between RT and weight status in a sample of children. METHODS: Three hundred and fifty four 9–12 year old schoolboys underwent standard anthropometry, and various simple RT tests. RESULTS: After controlling for potential confounders no significant relationship was observed between audio-RT (RTA) and clinical RT (RT(clin)) with BMI, %fat, waist circumference (WC) and waist to height ratio (WHtR) (P > 0.05). But, significant relationship (β = 0.18; P = 0.02) was observed between visual-RT (RTV) and %fat (but not BMI, WC and WHtR). CONCLUSIONS: Among the various simple RT tasks and central and total body obesity indices, just significant relationship was observed between %fat and RTV in the schoolboys. According to the results, it is concluded that RT impairment due to obesity may less be observed, or may not be observed for some types of RT tasks and obesity indices during childhood.
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spelling pubmed-56619092017-11-08 Simple reaction time and obesity in children: whether there is a relationship? Moradi, Akbar Esmaeilzadeh, Samad Environ Health Prev Med Regular Article OBJECTIVE: Reaction time (RT) testing is one of the oldest diagnostic methods used in modern psychology, and is known as simple and sensitive cognitive test. It has been recently reported that RT is related to obesity in young, adult and elderly individuals. However, most of the studies included small sample of participants, used just body mass index (BMI) as body obesity index, and did not consider some potential confounders such as age, socioeconomic status and physical activity in their studies. Furthermore, there is little and contradictory results for children. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the relationship between RT and weight status in a sample of children. METHODS: Three hundred and fifty four 9–12 year old schoolboys underwent standard anthropometry, and various simple RT tests. RESULTS: After controlling for potential confounders no significant relationship was observed between audio-RT (RTA) and clinical RT (RT(clin)) with BMI, %fat, waist circumference (WC) and waist to height ratio (WHtR) (P > 0.05). But, significant relationship (β = 0.18; P = 0.02) was observed between visual-RT (RTV) and %fat (but not BMI, WC and WHtR). CONCLUSIONS: Among the various simple RT tasks and central and total body obesity indices, just significant relationship was observed between %fat and RTV in the schoolboys. According to the results, it is concluded that RT impairment due to obesity may less be observed, or may not be observed for some types of RT tasks and obesity indices during childhood. BioMed Central 2017-03-14 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5661909/ /pubmed/29165104 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12199-017-0612-0 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5661909/
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