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- Title
Physical Inactivity and Obesity: A Vicious Circle.
- Authors
Pietiläinen, Kirsi H.; Kaprio, Jaakko; Borg, Patrik; Plasqui, Guy; Yki-Järvinen, Hannele; Kujala, Urho M.; Rose, Richard J.; Westerterp, Klaas R.; Rissanen, Aila
- Abstract
The article discusses a study which assessed the role of persistent physical activity (PA) versus inactivity in adolescence on the development of obesity and abdominal obesity in adulthood in a longitudinal population-based sample of twins. Findings suggest that physical inactivity in adolescence strongly and independently predicts total abdominal obesity in young adulthood, favoring the development of a self-perpetuating vicious circle of obesity and physical inactivity.
- Subjects
MEDICAL research; PHYSICAL fitness; ADOLESCENT obesity; DISEASES in twins; EXERCISE
- Publication
Obesity (19307381), 2008, Vol 16, Issue 2, p409
- ISSN
1930-7381
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/oby.2007.72