24-h movement guidelines and its association with health-related physical fitness in Brazilian adolescents

Abstract

Purpose: To examine the link between adherence to 24-h movement guidelines (isolated and combined) and muscular strength, cardiorespiratory fitness, and obesity indicators in Brazilian adolescents.

Methods: Data from 980 adolescents (14-19 years) in Florianópolis, Brazil, were analyzed. The dependent variables were body mass index (BMI), body fat, handgrip strength (HGS), maximal oxygen consumption (V˙O_2max). The independent variables were physical activity (PA, IPAQ), screen time (ST), sleep (bedtime, wake-up time). Compliance was calculated for each behavior and combinations. Multiple linear regression models were employed.

Results: Overall compliance: 4.1% (boys), 4.9% (girls). Positive associations were found between PA adherence and HGS/ V˙O_2max in both sexes, ST adherence and V˙O_2max, and adherence to all three guidelines and V˙O_2max. Girls showed positive associations between combined PA ​+ ​sleep adherence and HGS, ST ​+ ​sleep and V˙O_2max, and negative associations between adherence to two guidelines and BMI. Boys exhibited a negative association between PA and body fat, positive between ST and HGS, and positive/negative between combined PA ​+ ​ST adherence and HGS/body fat. Moreover, adherence to all three guidelines associated positively with HGS.

Conclusion: Adhering to 24-h movement guidelines, alone or in combination, benefits muscular strength and cardiorespiratory fitness in Brazilian adolescents. However, simultaneous adherence did not correlate with obesity indicators.

Keywords

Lifestyle / Obesity / Exercise / Health

CRediT authorship contribution statement

Jean Carlos Parmigiani De Marco: Writing - review & editing, Writing - original draft, Visualization, Validation, Methodology, Formal analysis, Data curation, Conceptualization. Tiago Rodrigues de Lima: Writing - review & editing, Visualization, Validation, Supervision, Methodology, Formal analysis. André de Araújo Pinto: Writing - review & editing, Supervision, Project administration, Investigation. Javier Brazo-Sayavera: Writing - review & editing, Visualization. Andreia Pelegrini: Writing - review & editing, Visualization, Validation, Supervision, Project administration, Methodology, Investigation, Conceptualization.

Ethical approval statement

Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Santa Catarina State University in July 2017 (protocol No. 2,172,699). Informed consent was obtained from each participant. All ethical principles were followed throughout the study, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

Funding information

This work was supported by the [Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES)] Finance Code 001; and [Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Inovação do Estado de Santa Catarina (FAPESC)] under Grant [2017TR646].

Declaration of competing interest

The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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