Association of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity with neck circumference in eight Latin American countries

• Main Authors: Gerson Luis de Moraes Ferrari (Author), Irina Kovalskys (Author), Mauro Fisberg (Author), Georgina Gomez (Author), Attilio Rigotti (Author), Lilia Yadira Cortés Sanabria (Author), Martha Cecilia Yépez García (Author), Rossina Gabriella Pareja Torres (Author), Marianella Herrera-Cuenca (Author), Ioná Zalcman Zimberg (Author), Viviana Guajardo (Author), Michael Pratt (Author), Carlos Pires (Author), Dirceu Solé (Author), on behalf of the ELANS Study Group (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Physical activity is a cornerstone in the prevention and treatment of obesity. There are relatively few studies that explore the effect of accelerometer-determined moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) on neck circumference (NC), most of them confined to single high-incom...