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Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review
Active commuting to school (ACS) seems to be one of the means to increase physical activity (PA) levels in youth, but it is unclear if ACS reduces the prevalence of obesity, protecting and improving their health. Most of the previous research has been conducted on children or youth (i.e., children w...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36078573 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710852 |
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author | Martin-Moraleda, Evelyn Mandic, Sandy Queralt, Ana Romero-Blanco, Cristina Aznar, Susana |
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description | Active commuting to school (ACS) seems to be one of the means to increase physical activity (PA) levels in youth, but it is unclear if ACS reduces the prevalence of obesity, protecting and improving their health. Most of the previous research has been conducted on children or youth (i.e., children with adolescents together), and there is a paucity of research in adolescents only. The purpose of this review was to assess the association between ACS with overweight/obesity parameters in adolescents aged 11 to 19 years. We used PubMed, WOS and SPORTDiscus as electronics databases. All steps of the process followed the recommendations of the PRISMA flow-diagram. Fifteen articles (68.18%) found a consistent association between ACS and body composition and seven studies (31.82%) showed no differences in body composition between active and passive commuters to school. Fourteen studies observed that active commuters to school had a more favorable body composition and one study reported that ACS was associated with unfavourable body composition. ACS could be the steppingstone to improve PA promotion in adolescence but whether ACS is associated with improved body composition and prevention of obesity requires further research. |
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spelling | pubmed-95180302022-09-29 Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review Martin-Moraleda, Evelyn Mandic, Sandy Queralt, Ana Romero-Blanco, Cristina Aznar, Susana Int J Environ Res Public Health Review Active commuting to school (ACS) seems to be one of the means to increase physical activity (PA) levels in youth, but it is unclear if ACS reduces the prevalence of obesity, protecting and improving their health. Most of the previous research has been conducted on children or youth (i.e., children with adolescents together), and there is a paucity of research in adolescents only. The purpose of this review was to assess the association between ACS with overweight/obesity parameters in adolescents aged 11 to 19 years. We used PubMed, WOS and SPORTDiscus as electronics databases. All steps of the process followed the recommendations of the PRISMA flow-diagram. Fifteen articles (68.18%) found a consistent association between ACS and body composition and seven studies (31.82%) showed no differences in body composition between active and passive commuters to school. Fourteen studies observed that active commuters to school had a more favorable body composition and one study reported that ACS was associated with unfavourable body composition. ACS could be the steppingstone to improve PA promotion in adolescence but whether ACS is associated with improved body composition and prevention of obesity requires further research. MDPI 2022-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9518030/ /pubmed/36078573 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710852 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Review Martin-Moraleda, Evelyn Mandic, Sandy Queralt, Ana Romero-Blanco, Cristina Aznar, Susana Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review |
title | Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review |
title_full | Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review |
title_fullStr | Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review |
title_short | Associations among Active Commuting to School and Prevalence of Obesity in Adolescents: A Systematic Review |
title_sort | associations among active commuting to school and prevalence of obesity in adolescents: a systematic review |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36078573 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191710852 |
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