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Cardiorespiratory Fitness Is Strongly Related to the Metabolic Syndrome in Adolescents

Author(s) -

Ian Janssen,

Wendy C. Cramp

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

diabetes care

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 6.636

H-Index - 363

eISSN - 1935-5548

pISSN - 0149-5992

DOI - 10.2337/dc07-2165

Subject(s) - cardiorespiratory fitness , medicine , metabolic syndrome , diabetes mellitus , medline , gerontology , pediatrics , endocrinology , political science , law

We respectfully disagree with both issues raised by Shaibi, Cruz, and Goran (1). First, we will address the comment that “associations between fitness and activity are weak at best.” The review article referenced by Shaibi, Cruz, and Goran was based on observational studies published before 1995, a time at which physical activity was measured almost exclusively by questionnaire. Since 1995, several studies have …

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