Is active commuting associated with metabolic syndrome in adults, adolescents, and children? a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Aims: The prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) is increasing annually across all age groups, raising the risk of morbidity, mortality, diabetes and cardiovascular disease in adults, adolescents, and children. Active commuting (AC) provides an opportunity to increase physical activity and reduce the MetS risk. The purpose of this study was to synthesize the available evidence on the prevalence of MetS and MetS risk factors in relation to AC vs non-active commuting among adults, adolescents, and children.

Lifestyle Behavior Patterns and Their Association with Active Commuting to School Among Spanish Adolescents: A Cluster Analysis.

Objectives: We aimed to identify clustering patterns of the device-measured physical activity (PA) levels (i.e., light PA and moderate-to-vigorous PA) and sedentary time (ST), screen time, sleep duration, and breakfast consumption of Spanish adolescents and their associations with the mode of commuting to and from schools (i.

Parents' perceived barriers to active commuting to school. Comparative study between Spanish and Ecuadorian cities.

Parents´ perceptions can influence their children´s mode of commuting to school. In this sense, the purposes of this study were to compare parental barriers towards active commuting to school (ACS) between Ecuadorian and Spanish children, and to analyze the associations between those barriers and the children's mode of commuting. Descriptive and comparative analyses were performed using Chi-square and T-student test.

Which one? A comparative study of traditional and sports uniforms on academic achievement, cognitive performance, playtime, bullying, and discrimination in adolescents: The Cogni-Action Project.

Objective: The aim of this study was to compare academic achievement, cognitive performance, playtime, bullying, and discrimination in adolescents according to traditional uniforms (TUs) and sports uniforms (SUs) worn at school, while simultaneously exploring the influence of the school vulnerability index.

Methods: A total of 988 Chilean adolescents (52.6% boys) aged 10-14 years participated in this cross-sectional study.

Active Commuting to University Is Positively Associated with Physical Activity and Perceived Fitness.

Background: Fitness is a powerful marker of health associated with physical activity (PA) in university students. However, insufficient PA is a serious health concern among university students. Active commuting provides an opportunity for increased PA levels.

New Self-Report Measures of Commuting Behaviors to University and Their Association with Sociodemographic Characteristics.

Unlabelled: Active commuting provides an opportunity for increased physical activity levels by a simple, inexpensive, and easy way to be incorporated in daily routines and could be considered a steppingstone for achieving a sustainable society since it provides physical, psychological, environmental, and economic benefits.

Objective: (a) to describe the commuting patterns to and from university in students regarding gender, (b) to provide new self-report variables to measure the active commuting behavior, and (c) to examine the sociodemographic characteristics associated with commuting behaviors.

Material And Methods: A total of 1257 university students (52.

Environmental and Psychosocial Barriers Affect the Active Commuting to University in Chilean Students.

Unlabelled: Biking and walking are active commuting, which is considered an opportunity to create healthy habits.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the main environmental and psychosocial barriers perceived by students, leading to less Active Commuting (AC) to university and to not reaching the Physical Activity (PA) recommendations.

Material And Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 1349 university students (637 men and 712 women) were selected.

Effect of a Single Nutritional Intervention Previous to a Critical Period of Fat Gain in University Students with Overweight and Obesity: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background: the present study aimed to investigate the effects of a single nutritional preventive session previous to a critical period linked to fat gain in university students with overweightness and obesity, emulating a nutritional session of a public health system.

Methods: In this single-blind randomized controlled trial, 23 students met all the criteria to be included (20.91 ± 2.

Active Commuting to University and its Association with Sociodemographic Factors and Physical Activity Levels in Chilean Students.

Active commuting to and from university (ACU) could be a strategy to increase physical activity levels (PA) and promote health in young university students. We aimed to a) examine the patterns of commuting to university in Chilean students; b) the association between the mode of commuting to and from university and socio-demographic factors and PA-levels. A total of 496 university students (21.

Active Commuting Behaviours from High School to University in Chile: A Retrospective Study.

: To compare the differences in the modes and distance of the displacements in high school and university stage in the same sample. : A total of 1288 volunteer university students (614 males and 674 females) participated, with an average age of 22.7 ± 5.