Accelerometers identify inactive and potentially obese children (EarlyBird 3).
Accelerometers revealed a fivefold variation in physical activity among healthy 5 year old children. They singled out habitually inactive children, most of them girls, who did little, whether at school or over the weekend. Accelerometers are of potential value in identifying, from an early age, children at risk of becoming obese.
Metcalf
B S
BS
University Medicine, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, UK.
Voss
L D
LD
Wilkin
T J
TJ
D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods; D009765:Obesity / Q000209:etiology*; D005082:Physical Exertion; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012016:Reference Values; D012307:Risk Factors