The relationship between physical activity and cholesterol levels in children and adolescents Relação entre níveis de atividade física e valores de colesterolemia em crianças e adolescentes

• Main Authors: José Alberto Duarte (Author), José Carlos Ribeiro (Author), José Oliveira (Author), Jorge Mota (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Materno Infantil de Pernambuco, 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVES: to describe total cholesterol (TC) plasma levels according to age and sex; to determine the contribution of sex, age, body mass index and physical activity (PA) to TC variation; to determine the odds ratio for high total cholesterol (HTC) plasma levels of the subjects in the first PA qua...