Long-term relationship between weight and aerobic-fitness change in children.
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Health Psychology
- Vol. 7 (1) , 47-53
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0090267
Abstract
The relationship between changes in relative weight and fitness was assessed 5 years after children began treatment for obesity. Multivariate regression analysis showed that two factors were independently related to fitness change: (a) maintenance of weight loss from the end of 6 months of treatment to the 5-year follow-up and (b) initial fitness level. Children who showed the largest long-term changes in relative weight and the lowest initial fitness showed the largest improvements in fitness. Short-term weight loss was not related to long-term fitness change. These results show that weight loss and fitness are related over 5 years.Keywords
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