Is body fat mass associated with worse gross motor skills in preschoolers? An exploratory study.

Is body fat mass associated with worse gross motor skills in preschoolers? An exploratory study.

We compared the motor competence between overweight/obese and eutrophic preschoolers with similar physical activity levels, age, socioeconomic status, maternal education, quality of the home environment and quality of the school environment. We also investigated to what extent excess body fat mass e...

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Main Authors: Juliana Nogueira Pontes Nobre, Rosane Luzia De Souza Morais, Amanda Cristina Fernandes, Ângela Alves Viegas, Pedro Henrique Scheidt Figueiredo, Henrique Silveira Costa, Ana Cristina Resende Camargos, Marco Fabrício Dias-Peixoto, Vanessa Amaral Mendonça, Ana Cristina Rodrigues Lacerda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264182

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https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264182

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