Virtual reality sports to tackle pediatric obesity

Sol Vidal-Almela¹, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez^{2

3}, Francisco B Ortega^{4

5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), University of Granada, Granada, Spain. sol.vidal.almela@gmail.com.
² Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
³ CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Granada, Spain.
⁴ Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), University of Granada, Granada, Spain. ortegaf@ugr.es.
⁵ CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Granada, Spain. ortegaf@ugr.es.
⁶ Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. ortegaf@ugr.es.

Sol Vidal-Almela et al. Nat Med. 2025 Jul.

. 2025 Jul;31(7):2121-2122.

doi: 10.1038/s41591-025-03757-w.

Sol Vidal-Almela¹, Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez^{2

3}, Francisco B Ortega^{4

5

6}

¹ Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), University of Granada, Granada, Spain. sol.vidal.almela@gmail.com.
² Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
³ CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Granada, Spain.
⁴ Department of Physical Education and Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences, Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS), University of Granada, Granada, Spain. ortegaf@ugr.es.
⁵ CIBER de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Granada, Spain. ortegaf@ugr.es.
⁶ Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland. ortegaf@ugr.es.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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