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Table 3 Overweight and high-risk waist circumference according to physical activity (PA) variables.

From: Physical activity, overweight and central adiposity in Swedish children and adolescents: the European Youth Heart Study

  

Overweight *

  

OR ‡

95 % CI

P

Total amount of PA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

3.2

1.4–7.4

0.006

 

Low PA level

2.7

1.2–6.4

0.019

Moderate PA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

1.7

0.7–3.7

0.218

 

Low PA level

2.0

0.9–4.4

0.073

Vigorous PA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

1.9

0.8–4.7

0.157

 

Low PA level

4.1

1.8–9.5

0.001

MVPA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

1.0

0.5–2.3

0.976

 

Low PA level

2.1

0.9–4.3

0.162

PA recommendations ††

≥ 60 min/day MVPA

1

Reference

 
 

< 60 min/day MVPA

1.9

0.9–4.3

0.118

  

High-risk waist circumference †

Total amount of PA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

1.1

0.6–2.1

0.765

 

Low PA level

1.0

0.6–2.0

0.913

Moderate PA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

1.1

0.6–2.0

0.794

 

Low PA level

1.3

0.7–2.4

0.443

Vigorous PA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

1.4

0.8–2.7

0.277

 

Low PA level

2.1

1.1–3.9

0.026

MVPA **

High PA level

1

Reference

 
 

Middle PA level

0.6

0.3–1.5

0.285

 

Low PA level

1.3

0.6–2.8

0.448

PA recommendations ††

≥ 60 min/day MVPA

1

Reference

 
 

< 60 min/day MVPA

1.4

0.8–.7

0.279

  1. OR, odds ratios; CI, confidence intervals; MVPA, moderate-vigorous PA. * International Obesity Task Force body mass index cut-off values. † Waist circumference cut-off values for predicting risk factor clustering, as proposed by Bogalusa Heart Study. ‡ Logistic regression analysis was performed controlling for sex and age. ** Low, middle and high PA levels represent the 1st, 2nd and 3rd tertiles, respectively. They all were age- and sex-specifically calculated. †† Since the number of children not meeting PA recommendations were very small (≤ 1%), this analysis was performed only for adolescents.