Abstract
Association between insufficient level of physical activity and multiple health risk behaviors in adolescents
Highlights
Evidence has highlighted the insufficient level of physical activity as one of the main health risk factor[1,2], including negative effects on vascular outcomes[3], metabolic diseases[4] and some types of cancers[5]
The National Student Health Survey (PeNSE) pointed out that only 20% of young Brazilians reach this recommendation[7]. In addition to their direct negative effects[1], some evidence has shown that the insufficient level of physical activity may be clustered with more than one health risk behavior (HRB)[8] at the same time in adults and youth[8,9,10]
According to the inclusion criteria, some adolescents were excluded from the analysis as follow: those younger than 14 years old (12 subjects); those older than 19 years old (549 subjects); those who did not answered to relevant questions such as age (6 subjects) and gender (12 subjects); and those who did not present complete information about the four HRB investigated (504 subjects)
Summary
Evidence has highlighted the insufficient level of physical activity as one of the main health risk factor[1,2], including negative effects on vascular outcomes[3], metabolic diseases[4] and some types of cancers[5]. The National Student Health Survey (PeNSE) pointed out that only 20% of young Brazilians reach this recommendation[7]. In addition to their direct negative effects[1], some evidence has shown that the insufficient level of physical activity may be clustered with more than one health risk behavior (HRB)[8] at the same time in adults and youth[8,9,10]. There are reports of an increasing aggregation of different HRB among Brazilian adolescents in recent years[9,12], including exposure to alcohol consumption, smoking, sedentary behaviors and low fruit consumption which, in aggregate, may increase health risks[10]
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