"Fat but Fit" Paradox and Cardiometabolic Risk in Children : The Role of Physical Activity

Background: The "fat but fit" paradigm suggests that high fitness levels counteract the negative consequences of obesity on cardiometabolic risk, nevertheless, this paradigm has been less studied in children. Objectives: To analyze the relationship between "fat but fit" categories and cardiometabolic risk factors in school children, and to examine whether the intensity of physical activity (PA) is related with the fat but fit (FF) category in which the child is classified. Methods: We analyzed the baseline measurements of 312 school children aged 9-11 years involved in the clinical trial MOVI-daFit!, including adiposity parameters (BMI, waist circumference, and body fat mass percentage), cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), blood pressure parameters, PA, and biochemical parameters (blood lipid profile, insulin, C-reactive protein, and glycosylated hemoglobin). Results: The cluster analysis of body fat mass percentage and VO2 max estimate z-scores agreed with the four categories of the "fat but fit" paradigm: fat unfit (FU), unfat unfit (UU), FF, and unfat fit (UF). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) models indicated that children in the FF and UF clusters had better levels of biochemical parameters [high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-c), triglycerides (TG), TG/HDL-c, insulin], vigorous PA amount and metabolic syndrome (MetS) index than their peers in the FU and UU cluster categories (p < 0.05). Conclusions: Our results reinforce the "fat but fit" paradigm proving that CRF levels can counteract the effect of obesity on some cardiometabolic risk factors (HDL-c, TG, TG/HDL-c, insulin, PA, and MetS) in school children. ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03236337.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

Childhood obesity (Print) - 19(2023), 4 vom: 26. Juni, Seite 282-291

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Pozuelo-Carrascosa, Diana P [VerfasserIn]
Martínez-Vizcaíno, Vicente [VerfasserIn]
Torres-Costoso, Ana [VerfasserIn]
Martinez, Montserrat Solera [VerfasserIn]
Rodríguez-Gutiérrez, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Garrido-Miguel, Miriam [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Body composition
Cardiometabolic risk factors
Cardiorespiratory fitness
Cholesterol, HDL
Fat but fit
Insulin
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
School children
Triglycerides

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Date Completed 05.06.2023

Date Revised 25.06.2023

published: Print-Electronic

ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03236337

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1089/chi.2022.0073

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM344016641