Physical Exercise/Physical Activity and Metabolic Diseases in Children and Adolescents
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2022) | Viewed by 18785
Special Issue Editors
Interests: physical activity assessment; physical fitness; exercise intervention
Interests: physical fitness; physical activity; metabolic disorders; genetics
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Interests: physical activity; exercise; pediatrics; obesity; physical fitness; cardiometabolic risk factors
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue entitled “Physical Exercise/Physical Activity and Metabolic Diseases in Children and Adolescents” will discuss the role of physical exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of different metabolic disorders in childhood and adolescence. This topic is of great concern because of the increasing number of overweight and obese children and adolescents as well as of youngsters who do not engage in daily physical activity as recommended by health guidelines. Insufficient physical activity seems to be crucial for the early development of an inflammatory profile, insulin resistance, and cardiometabolic diseases. Though some indicators and determinants of metabolic diseases have been identified, we still have to understand what causes the genetic unmasking of these diseases, increasing their prevalence and incidence in the youth population.
In particular, lifestyle factors of the mothers as well as of their children during the first years of life appear to be involved and need to be studied through descriptive, analytical, and longitudinal studies. It is also essential to examine individual factors that may influence children’s and adolescents' responses to different types of physical activity interventions, considering their risk of cardiometabolic disorders.
The aim of this Special Issue is to present high-quality, quantitative and qualitative original research studies to improve our knowledge of the role of physical exercise and physical activity in the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic disease in children and adolescents, also in relation to behavioral and genetic indicators and determinants.
Dr. Anelise Reis Gaya
Prof. Dr. Cézane Reuter
Prof. Dr. Jorge Mota
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- cardiometabolic disease
- inflammatory markers
- children
- adolescents
- intervention
- exercise
- physical activity
- parents
- obesity
- genetic determinants
- sleep
- tv time
- health
- diabetes
- metabolic syndrome
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