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. 2022 Jan 20:12:759165.
doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.759165. eCollection 2021.

Effects of Overweight/Obesity on Motor Performance in Children: A Systematic Review

Waleska Maria Almeida Barros  1   2 , Karollainy Gomes da Silva  2 , Roberta Karlize Pereira Silva  2 , Ana Patrícia da Silva Souza  1   2 , Ana Beatriz Januário da Silva  1   2 , Mariluce Rodrigues Marques Silva  1   2 , Matheus Santos de Sousa Fernandes  1 , Sandra Lopes de Souza  1 , Viviane de Oliveira Nogueira Souza  3   4
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Effects of Overweight/Obesity on Motor Performance in Children: A Systematic Review

Waleska Maria Almeida Barros et al. Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). .

Abstract

Childhood obesity is a serious public health problem. Childhood obesity and overweight are associated with the appearance of coordination deficit disorder and can cause impaired motor performance. We searched online databases for all related articles using comprehensive international databases from the Medline PubMed Institute, Web of Science, ScienceDirect, SCOPUS, and PsycINFO up to December 20, 2020. Overall, 33 studies were included in this systematic review. The present review demonstrated that children with higher percentage of body fat had lower levels of moderate to vigorous physical activity, as well as decreased levels of gross motor coordination, as shown by tests for neuromuscular performance. These results corroborate the hypothesis that overweight and obesity in children and adolescents are associated, not only with insufficient performance during gross motor coordination activities, but also with a greater risk to physical health.

Systematic review registration: [https://www.crd.york.ac.uk/prospero/], identifier [CRD42020182935].

Keywords: body mass index; metabolic syndrome; motor skills; obesity; pediatric obesity.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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A flow diagram of the selection strategy.
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Risk of bias graph: review of authors’ judgements about each risk of bias item presented as percentages across all included studies.
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Risk of bias summary: review of authors’ judgements about each risk of bias item for each included study.
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