Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students
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Resumo: | Purpose. Overweight and obesity arise, essentially, as a consequence of the adoption of poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles. Being the teenager a “microworld” in transformation, is intend to characterize and compare (gender) body composition parameters in Higher Education students. Methods. The characterization was performed through univariate analysis and the comparison using Mann-Whitney test, for a statistical significance level of 5% (p<0.05). Results. Female students presented less satisfactory results in Waist Circumference (WC) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHiR), male students in Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-Height Ratio (WHeR), and there are statistically significant differences in 3 of the 4 parameters (WC, WHiR and WHeR). Conclusions. These results may be useful to define strategies to combat overweight and obesity, considering the characteristics of this specific population. |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education studentsobesitystudentssedentary lifestylePurpose. Overweight and obesity arise, essentially, as a consequence of the adoption of poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles. Being the teenager a “microworld” in transformation, is intend to characterize and compare (gender) body composition parameters in Higher Education students. Methods. The characterization was performed through univariate analysis and the comparison using Mann-Whitney test, for a statistical significance level of 5% (p<0.05). Results. Female students presented less satisfactory results in Waist Circumference (WC) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHiR), male students in Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-Height Ratio (WHeR), and there are statistically significant differences in 3 of the 4 parameters (WC, WHiR and WHeR). Conclusions. These results may be useful to define strategies to combat overweight and obesity, considering the characteristics of this specific population.Aurel Vlaicu University AradRepositório ComumCampos, FranciscoAbrantes, BrunoFerreira, RúbenMarques, MarianaM. L. Martins, FernandoMelo, RicardoMendes, Rui2023-09-25T10:30:31Z20182018-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/46729enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-09-28T02:16:57Zoai:comum.rcaap.pt:10400.26/46729Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T20:31:33.925026Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students Campos, Francisco obesity students sedentary lifestyle |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students |
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Overweight and obesity in Portugal higher education students |
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Campos, Francisco |
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Campos, Francisco Abrantes, Bruno Ferreira, Rúben Marques, Mariana M. L. Martins, Fernando Melo, Ricardo Mendes, Rui |
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Abrantes, Bruno Ferreira, Rúben Marques, Mariana M. L. Martins, Fernando Melo, Ricardo Mendes, Rui |
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Repositório Comum |
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Campos, Francisco Abrantes, Bruno Ferreira, Rúben Marques, Mariana M. L. Martins, Fernando Melo, Ricardo Mendes, Rui |
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obesity students sedentary lifestyle |
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obesity students sedentary lifestyle |
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Purpose. Overweight and obesity arise, essentially, as a consequence of the adoption of poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyles. Being the teenager a “microworld” in transformation, is intend to characterize and compare (gender) body composition parameters in Higher Education students. Methods. The characterization was performed through univariate analysis and the comparison using Mann-Whitney test, for a statistical significance level of 5% (p<0.05). Results. Female students presented less satisfactory results in Waist Circumference (WC) and Waist-Hip Ratio (WHiR), male students in Body Mass Index (BMI) and Waist-Height Ratio (WHeR), and there are statistically significant differences in 3 of the 4 parameters (WC, WHiR and WHeR). Conclusions. These results may be useful to define strategies to combat overweight and obesity, considering the characteristics of this specific population. |
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2018 |
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2018 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z 2023-09-25T10:30:31Z |
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