Relative age effect on the physical activity and sedentary behavior in children and adolescents aged 10 to 18 years old: a cross-sectional study in Japan

• Main Authors: Takaaki Mori (Author), Takumi Aoki (Author), Kan Oishi (Author), Tetsuo Harada (Author), Chiaki Tanaka (Author), Shigeho Tanaka (Author), Hideki Tanaka (Author), Kazuhiko Fukuda (Author), Yasuko Kamikawa (Author), Nobuhiro Tsuji (Author), Keisuke Komura (Author), Shohei Kokudo (Author), Noriteru Morita (Author), Kazuhiro Suzuki (Author), Masashi Watanabe (Author), Ryoji Kasanami (Author), Taketaka Hara (Author), Ryo Miyazaki (Author), Takafumi Abe (Author), Koji Yamatsu (Author), Daisuke Kume (Author), Hedenori Asai (Author), Naofumi Yamamoto (Author), Taishi Tsuji (Author), Tomoki Nakaya (Author), Kojiro Ishii (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Few studies have shown that relatively younger children and adolescents (those born later in the same school year) were less likely to engage in physical activity in a phenomenon termed the relative age effect. Although these studies mainly targeted elementary and middle school s...