• Birth weight, cardiometabolic risk factors and effect modification of physical activity in children and adolescents: pooled data from 12 international studies 

      Bernhardsen, Guro Pauck; Stensrud, Trine; Hansen, Bjørge Hermann; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Kolle, Elin; Nystad, Wenche; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Hallal, Pedro C.; Janz, Kathleen F.; Kriemler, Susi; Andersen, Lars Bo; Northstone, Kate; Resaland, Geir Kåre; Sardinha, Luís B.; van Sluijs, Esther M.F.; Ried-Larsen, Mathias; Ekelund, Ulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Objectives Low and high birth weight is associated with higher levels of cardiometabolic risk factors and adiposity in children and adolescents, and increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and early mortality ...
    • Children’s moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on weekdays versus weekend days: a multi-country analysis 

      Brazendale, Keith; Beets, Michael W.; Armstrong, Bridget; Weaver, R. Glenn; Hunt, Ethan T.; Pate, Russell R.; Brusseau, Timothy A.; Bohnert, Amy M.; Olds, Timothy; Tassitano, Rafael M.; Tenorio, Maria Cecilia M.; Garcia, Jeanette; Andersen, Lars Bo; Davey, Rachel; Hallal, Pedro C.; Jago, Russell; Kolle, Elin; Kriemler, Susi; Kristensen, Peter L.; Kwon, Soyang; Puder, Jardena J.; Salmon, Jo; Sardinha, Luís B.; van Sluijs, Esther M.F. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Purpose The Structured Days Hypothesis (SDH) posits that children’s behaviors associated with obesity – such as physical activity – are more favorable on days that contain more ‘structure’ (i.e., a pre-planned, segmented, ...
    • Gender differences in the distribution of children’s physical activity: evidence from nine countries 

      Kretschmer, Luke; Salali, Gul Deniz; Andersen, Lars Bo; Hallal, Pedro C.; Northstone, Kate; Sardinha, Luís B.; Dyble, Mark; Bann, David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: Physical activity in childhood is thought to influences health and development. Previous studies have found that boys are typically more active than girls, yet the focus has largely been on differences in average ...
    • The multivariate physical activity signature associated with metabolic health in children and youth: An International Children's Accelerometry Database (ICAD) analysis 

      Aadland, Eivind; Kvalheim, Olav Martin; Hansen, Bjørge Hermann; Kriemler, Susi; Ried-Larsen, Mathias; Wedderkopp, Niels; Sardinha, Luis B.; Møller, Niels Christian; Hallal, Pedro C.; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Northstone, Kate; Andersen, Lars Bo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      There is solid evidence for an association between physical activity and metabolic health outcomes in children and youth, but for methodological reasons most studies describe the intensity spectrum using only a few summary ...