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Introduction: Physical activity is related to health and lifestyle and should be part of the daily routine of all individuals since it brings many benefits to the body.
Ains: To study the adolescent population‘s body mass index (BMI). To study the relation between physical activity and gender.
Materials and Methods: We performed a quantitative, observational, analytic and cross-sectional study. After the use of exclusion criteria, a sample of 36 individuals was selected from a population of diabetic adolescents. A validated questionnaire was applied to collected physical activity and personal data. SPSS 22.0 was used to treat the data. The chi-square test was applied to study the relation between the level of physical activity and gender; Fisher’s exact test was applied to study the relation between level of physical activity and BMI.
Results and discussion: The chi-square test showed a significant relation between the level of physical activity and gender (p-value = 0.018) with moderate intensity (phi = .4), which corroborates other national and worldwide studies. Fisher’s exact test showed no relation between BMI and the level of physical activity (p-value=0,646).
Conclusion: 86,1% of the sampled diabetic adolescents are eutrophic, and 66,7% are considered insufficient active. A significant relation was found between gender and the level of physical activity. No relation was found between BMI and level of physical activity.
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Body mass index Physical activity Diabetic adolescents
Citation
Neto, M.; Cunha, H.; Pereira, M.; Pinto, S.; Fernandes, A.; Pereira, A. (2016). BMI and physical activity in diabetic adolescents followed Hospital Barcelos. In III Encontro de Jovens Investigadores do IPB: livro de resumos. Bragança: Instituto Politécnico. ISBN 978-972-745-208-8
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Instituto Politécnico de Bragança