2022 French Report Card on Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviors in Children and Youth: From Continuous Alarming Conclusions to Encouraging Initiatives.

Background: Scientific evidence and public health reports keep highlighting the continuous and alarming worldwide progression of physical inactivity and sedentary behaviors in children and adolescents. The present paper summarizes findings from the 2022 French Report Card (RC) on physical activity for children and youth and compares them to the 2016, 2018, and 2020 RCs.

Methods: The 2022 edition of the French RC follows the standardized methodology established by the Active Healthy Kids Global Matrix.

Impact of the COVID-19 confinement on movement behaviors among French young children: the ONAPS national survey.

Background: The present study examines the effects of the COVID-19 confinement on health-related behaviors (physical activity, sedentary behaviors) of young French children.

Methods: Parents of 348 French children under 6 years of age completed an online survey launched during the first days of the initial COVID-19-related confinement. They were asked to indicate whether their kids increased, decreased or maintained their physical activity level, time spent in sedentary behaviors, and sleep time.

Reliability and Validity of the ONAPS Physical Activity Questionnaire in Assessing Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in French Adults.

This study was conducted to assess the validity and reliability of a new questionnaire, the ONAPS-PAQ, developed to assess physical activity (PA) and sedentary behaviors (SB) in the general population. A total of 137 healthy adults aged 18 to 69 years were included. Following completion of two physical activity questionnaires (ONAPS-PAQ and GPAQ, the Global physical activity questionnaire) to study concurrent validity, participants wore an accelerometer (UKK-RM42) for 7 days to study criterion validity.

RGTA modulates the healing pattern of a defect in a monolayer of osteoblastic cells by acting on both proliferation and migration.

A family of heparan-like polymers, RGTAs, was shown to promote repair of various tissues. Like heparin and heparan-sulfates, RGTAs potentiate in vitro the biological activities of heparin-binding growth factors (HBGFs) and protect them against proteolytic degradation. It was postulated that RGTAs stimulate bone healing by interacting with HBGFs released in the wound site and, subsequently, by promoting the proliferation of cells implicated in this process.