PMID- 34622754
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230401
LR  - 20230401
IS  - 1475-2662 (Electronic)
IS  - 0007-1145 (Linking)
VI  - 128
IP  - 5
DP  - 2022 Sep 14
TI  - Effect of baseline physical activity on the fat gain of adolescents in a 5-year 
      cohort study in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
PG  - 948-954
LID - 10.1017/S0007114521004098 [doi]
AB  - Differences in physical activity (PA) might lead to long-term weight control. 
      Studies on inverse relations between PA and changes in fatness among adolescents 
      are limited. This paper examined the effect of PA on adolescents' changing body 
      fatness over 5 years in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Two hundred thirty-five boys and 
      247 girls who have had skinfold thickness measurements in the baseline survey in 
      2004 were selected to follow yearly. We estimated PA as the average number of 
      accelerometers' counts/h. Slopes of triceps, sub-scapular skinfolds and BMI were 
      calculated and classified as increasing or stable/decreasing. To assess the 
      effects of the low level of activity (i.e. below the median of the average number 
      of counts) on the fat gain (i.e. increasing slopes), relative risk and 95 % CI 
      were estimated using Poisson regression. The average number of counts/h in boys 
      (7.8) was significantly higher than that in girls (5.0) (P < 0.001). On average, 
      active girls still gained 0.51 mm in triceps skinfold (TSF) over 5 years, while 
      active boys lost 0.12 mm. After controlling for baseline energy intake, baseline 
      triceps and baseline age, inactive adolescents were 1.39 times higher than active 
      ones to increase the slope of triceps (95 % CI 1.19, 1.63). The risk ratio was 
      1.62 for those with more body fat at baseline. In general, inactive students 
      gained substantially more subcutaneous fat, especially in their TSF, than more 
      active ones. Thus, strategies to prevent adolescent obesity in HCMC should 
      consider the important role of PA to control this problem in adolescents 
      effectively.
FAU - Tang, Hong K
AU  - Tang HK
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2410-9177
AD  - Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Pham Ngoc Thach University 
      of Medicine, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
FAU - Dibley, Michael J
AU  - Dibley MJ
AD  - The Sydney School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of 
      Sydney, NSW2006Australia.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20211008
PL  - England
TA  - Br J Nutr
JT  - The British journal of nutrition
JID - 0372547
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Adipose Tissue
MH  - Body Mass Index
MH  - Cohort Studies
MH  - Exercise
MH  - *Pediatric Obesity
MH  - Skinfold Thickness
MH  - Vietnam
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Adolescents
OT  - Fat gain
OT  - Physical activity
OT  - Skinfold thickness
EDAT- 2021/10/09 06:00
MHDA- 2022/12/22 06:00
CRDT- 2021/10/08 08:42
PHST- 2021/10/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/12/22 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/10/08 08:42 [entrez]
AID - S0007114521004098 [pii]
AID - 10.1017/S0007114521004098 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Br J Nutr. 2022 Sep 14;128(5):948-954. doi: 10.1017/S0007114521004098. Epub 2021 
      Oct 8.