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- Title
Influence of excess adiposity on exercise fitness and performance in overweight children and adolescents.
- Authors
Norman, Anne-Caroline; Drinkard, Bart; McDuffie, Jennifer R; Ghorbani, Samareh; Yanoff, Lisa B; Yanovski, Jack A
- Abstract
Relatively little is known about how excess body mass affects adolescents' capacity to perform sustained exercise. We hypothesized that most of the difficulty that severely overweight adolescents have with sustained exercise occurs because the metabolic costs of moving excess mass result in use of a high proportion of their total oxygen reserve.
- Publication
Pediatrics, 2005, Vol 115, Issue 6, pe690
- ISSN
1098-4275
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1542/peds.2004-1543