Impact of normal weight obesity on fundamental motor skills in pre-school children aged 3 to 6 years

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2017/0752" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2017/0752</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1127/anthranz/2017/0752" target="_blank" >10.1127/anthranz/2017/0752</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Impact of normal weight obesity on fundamental motor skills in pre-school children aged 3 to 6 years

Original language description

Normal weight obesity is defined as having excessive body fat, but normal BMI. There has been only little evidence about motor performance of normal weight obese children. This study aims to establish whether normal weight obese pre-school children aged 3-6 years will have a significantly worse level of fundamental motor skills compared to normal weight non-obese counterparts. The research sample consisted of 152 pre-schoolers selected from a specific district of Prague, the Czech Republic. According to values from four skinfolds: triceps, subscapula, suprailiaca, calf, and BMI three categories of children aged 3-6 years were determined: A) normal weight obese n = 51; B) normal weight non-obese n = 52; C) overweight and obese n = 49. The Movement Assessment Battery for Children (MABC-2) was used for the assessment of fundamental motor skills. Normal weight obese children had significantly higher amount of adipose tissue p &lt; 0.001 than normal weight non-obese children but the same average BMI. Moreover, normal weight obese children did not have significantly less amount of subcutaneous fat on triceps and calf compared to their overweight and obese peers. In majority of MABC-2 tests, normal weight obese pre-schoolers showed the poorest performance. Moreover, normal weight obese children had significantly worse total standard score = 38.82 compared to normal weight non-obese peers = 52.27; p &lt; 0.05. In addition, normal weight obese children had a more than three times higher frequency OR = 3.69 CI95% (1.10; 12.35) of severe motor deficit performance &lt;= 5th centile of the MABC-2 norm. These findings are strongly alarming since indices like BMI are not able to identify normal weight obese individual. We recommend verifying real portion of normal weight obese children as they are probably in higher risk of health and motor problems than overweight and obese population due to their low lean mass

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Anthropologischer Anzeiger

ISSN

0003-5548

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

74

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

203-212

UT code for WoS article

000414162200005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85027699232