Underweight children are agile but lack power

Abstract Given the knowledge gap in literature on the impact of undernutrition on muscular power and agility in school-aged children, the aim of this study was to compare physical fitness in such underweight- and normal weight children. In this cross-sectional study, 853 children were included (459...

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Main Authors: Evi Verbecque, Dané Coetzee, Bouwien Smits-Engelsman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-08-01
Series:BMC Pediatrics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-022-03544-3