Objectives: Early predictors for back pain need to be identified for the development of prevention strategies starting as early as childhood. For this purpose, the relationship between physical fitness and spinal flexibility at the age of six years and its prediction for the development of non-specific back pain (BP) during childhood were analyzed.
Methods: In this prospective cohort study with 4-year follow-up, school children from the Swiss Canton Basel-Stadt, aged 6-8 (2014) at baseline and 10-12 years (2018) at follow-up, were recruited from 26 primary schools ( = 238) within a mandatory evaluation of motor skills.
The present study examined the prospective association of parental household income, education level, migration background, and physical activity (PA) behavior with the development of pulse wave velocity (PWV) in prepubertal children. A total of 223 children (initial age 6-8 years) were included in this prospective school-based cohort study from 2014 to 2018. Parental socioeconomic status, migration background, and PA behavior were assessed by the use of questionnaires at both times points.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aims: Physical activity (PA) and fitness are important modulators of vascular ageing and may therefore help expand individual health span. We aimed to systematically review the association of PA and fitness, as well as the effects of exercise interventions on the new microvascular biomarkers retinal arteriolar (CRAE) and venular (CRVE) diameters and the retinal flicker light-induced dilatation (FID) in children and adults.
Methods: PubMed, Ovid, The Cochrane, EMBASE and Web of Science were searched.