Physical activity and clustered cardiovascular risk in children: a cross-sectional study (The European Youth Heart Study)

Background Atherosclerosis develops from early childhood; physical activity could positively affect this process. This study's aim was to assess the associations of objectively measured physical activity with clustering of cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and derive guidelines on the basis of this analysis. Methods We did a cross-sectional study of 1732 randomly selected 9-year-old and 15-year-old school children from Denmark,...