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Motor Competence and Body Mass Index in the Preschool Years: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis of 5545 Children from Eight Countries.

Clarice Maria De Lucena MartinsVicente Romo-PerezElizabeth K WebsterMichael Joseph DuncanLuís Filipe LemosAmanda E StaianoAnthony D OkelyMagistro DanieleFabio CarlevaroFarid BardidFrancesca MagnoGlauber Carvalho NobreIsaac EstevanJorge Augusto Pinto da Silva MotaKe NingLeah E RobinsonMatthieu LenoirMinghui QuanNadia Cristina ValentiniPenny CrossRachel A JonesRafael Dos Santos HenriqueSi-Tong ChenYucui DiaoPaulo Felipe Ribeiro BandeiraLisa M Barnett
Published in: Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) (2023)
Public health policies should position motor skill competence as critical for children's obesity prevention from early childhood onwards. Robust longitudinal and experimental designs are encouraged to explore a possible causal pathway between motor skill competence and BMI from early childhood.
Keyphrases
  • public health
  • body mass index
  • cross sectional
  • weight gain
  • young adults
  • metabolic syndrome
  • insulin resistance
  • type diabetes
  • weight loss
  • clinical trial
  • global health
  • high fat diet induced
  • skeletal muscle
  • open label