How are academic achievement and inhibitory control associated with physical fitness, soil-transmitted helminth infections, food insecurity and stunting among South African primary schoolchildren?

• Главные авторы: Markus Gerber (Автор), Christin Lang (Автор), Johanna Beckmann (Автор), Rosa du Randt (Автор), Stefanie Gall (Автор), Harald Seelig (Автор), Kurt Z. Long (Автор), Sebastian Ludyga (Автор), Ivan Müller (Автор), Madeleine Nienaber (Автор), Siphesihle Nqweniso (Автор), Uwe Pühse (Автор), Peter Steinmann (Автор), Jürg Utzinger (Автор), Cheryl Walter (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: BMC, 2021-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Cardiovascular fitness has been associated with both executive function and academic achievement in multiple cohort studies including children and adolescents. However, research is scarce among children from low- and middle-income countries. Hence, this paper focuses on South Afr...