Population
653 boys participating in community-sponsored youth football programs in central Michigan, with a subset of…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
approximately 1 year for a subset of 166 boys
Authors
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May warrant weight monitoring in youth football; hypothesis-generating for long-term cardiometabolic outcomes.
Youth football players tend to be taller and heavier than reference populations, with accelerated weight gain that may increase the risk of overweight/obesity.
Malina et al. (2005) studied this question.
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