Health-related physical fitness and weight status in Hong Kong adolescents
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Summary
Overweight/obese and underweight adolescents had poorer performance in push-up and sit-up tests than normal weight adolescents and different aspects of health-related physical fitness may serve as immediate indicators of potential health risks for underweight and overweight adolescents.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2010-02-23
- Cited by
- 148
- References
- 51
- Access
- Open access
- OpenAlex
- https://openalex.org/W2076944537
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:604826
Keywords
Medicine, Biostatistics, Public health, Epidemiology, Environmental health
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