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. 2016 Sep;26(3):432-442.
doi: 10.1111/jora.12203. Epub 2015 Mar 23.

Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior With Adolescent Academic Achievement

Marko T Kantomaa  1 , Emmanuel Stamatakis  2 , Anna Kankaanpää  3 , Eero Kajantie  4 , Anja Taanila  5 , Tuija Tammelin  3
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Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior With Adolescent Academic Achievement

Marko T Kantomaa et al. J Res Adolesc. 2016 Sep.

Abstract

The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (N = 8,061) was used to investigated the joint associations of physical activity and sedentary behavior with academic achievement. Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate how classes formed by latent class analysis (LCA) according to overall physical activity, sports club membership, viewing TV, using a computer, reading books and magazines, other sedentary activities, and sleep were associated with grade-point average. When adjusted for gender, self-rated health, and mother's education, physically active adolescents and generally active adolescents were about twice as likely to have high grade-point average compared with sedentary TV viewers.

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Characteristics of the classes (C1–C5) formed by physical activity and different forms of sedentary behavior at the age of 16 years (n = 6,509). The colors denote percentages of the class sample in low (light gray), medium (dark gray), and high (black) levels of activity. M = male; F = female.
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