Cardiometabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents: The Paradox between Body Mass Index and Cardiorespiratory Fitness.
Luciana TornquistDebora TornquistLetícia de Borba SchneidersSilvia Isabel Rech FrankeJane Dagmar Pollo RennerCézane Priscilla ReuterPublished in: Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia (2022)
BMI played a central role in the association with risk and CRF was shown to attenuate the association between risk factors and obesity. Overweight-obese children and adolescents had a higher cardiometabolic risk, but the effect size was larger among the unfit.