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Associations between body composition and physical fitness among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: This study examined associations between body composition and physical fitness scores among medical students in Shenyang, China. METHODS: A total of 2291 medical students aged 18–20 (815 male and 1476 female) in Shenyang of China were recruited to participate in the research in May 2019....

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Autores principales: Li, Bing, Sun, Lu, Yu, Ye, Xin, Hong, Zhang, Han, Liu, Jie, Zhang, Zhuo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14548-0
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author Li, Bing
Sun, Lu
Yu, Ye
Xin, Hong
Zhang, Han
Liu, Jie
Zhang, Zhuo
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Sun, Lu
Yu, Ye
Xin, Hong
Zhang, Han
Liu, Jie
Zhang, Zhuo
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description BACKGROUND: This study examined associations between body composition and physical fitness scores among medical students in Shenyang, China. METHODS: A total of 2291 medical students aged 18–20 (815 male and 1476 female) in Shenyang of China were recruited to participate in the research in May 2019. With the use of the BCA-1B body composition analyzer and standard method of physical fitness assessment, the body composition and seven measures of physical fitness (body mass index, vital capacity, sit and reach, standing long jump, pull-ups/crunches, 50-m sprint, and 800/1000-m run) of college students were measured, respectively. The associations between body composition and physical fitness scores were assessed using multiple linear regression analysis. RESULTS: The height, weight, total body water, protein mass, mineral content, body mass index, vital capacity, and body function scores of male students were significantly higher than those of female students. However, fat mass (FM), body shape score, physical quality score, and total physical fitness score of female students were significantly higher than those of male students. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis indicated that in male students, only FM was negatively associated with body shape score, body function score, physical quality score, and total physical fitness score. In female students, FM was associated with lower body shape scores, physical quality scores, and total physical fitness scores. Furthermore, the ratio of overweight to obesity in male students was significantly higher than that in female students. CONCLUSIONS: In Chinese medical colleges, the physical fitness level of female students is better than that of male students, and a higher FM was significantly associated with worse physical fitness of medical students. Moreover, male students with a higher rate of overweight and obesity are an important group that needs weight control.
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spelling pubmed-96418862022-11-15 Associations between body composition and physical fitness among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study Li, Bing Sun, Lu Yu, Ye Xin, Hong Zhang, Han Liu, Jie Zhang, Zhuo BMC Public Health Research BACKGROUND: This study examined associations between body composition and physical fitness scores among medical students in Shenyang, China. METHODS: A total of 2291 medical students aged 18–20 (815 male and 1476 female) in Shenyang of China were recruited to participate in the research in May 2019. With the use of the BCA-1B body composition analyzer and standard method of physical fitness assessment, the body composition and seven measures of physical fitness (body mass index, vital capacity, sit and reach, standing long jump, pull-ups/crunches, 50-m sprint, and 800/1000-m run) of college students were measured, respectively. The associations between body composition and physical fitness scores were assessed using multiple linear regression analysis. RESULTS: The height, weight, total body water, protein mass, mineral content, body mass index, vital capacity, and body function scores of male students were significantly higher than those of female students. However, fat mass (FM), body shape score, physical quality score, and total physical fitness score of female students were significantly higher than those of male students. The results of the multiple linear regression analysis indicated that in male students, only FM was negatively associated with body shape score, body function score, physical quality score, and total physical fitness score. In female students, FM was associated with lower body shape scores, physical quality scores, and total physical fitness scores. Furthermore, the ratio of overweight to obesity in male students was significantly higher than that in female students. CONCLUSIONS: In Chinese medical colleges, the physical fitness level of female students is better than that of male students, and a higher FM was significantly associated with worse physical fitness of medical students. Moreover, male students with a higher rate of overweight and obesity are an important group that needs weight control. BioMed Central 2022-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9641886/ /pubmed/36348367 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14548-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Li, Bing
Sun, Lu
Yu, Ye
Xin, Hong
Zhang, Han
Liu, Jie
Zhang, Zhuo
Associations between body composition and physical fitness among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study
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title_full Associations between body composition and physical fitness among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Associations between body composition and physical fitness among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Associations between body composition and physical fitness among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study
title_short Associations between body composition and physical fitness among Chinese medical students: a cross-sectional study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9641886/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36348367
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14548-0
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