Cadenas-Sánchez, Cristina

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  • PublicationOpen Access
    Differences in brain volume between metabolically healthy and unhealthy overweight and obese children: the role of fitness
    (MDPI, 2020) Cadenas-Sánchez, Cristina; Esteban Cornejo, Irene; Migueles, Jairo H.; Labayen Goñi, Idoia; Verdejo Román, Juan; Mora González, José; Henriksson, Pontus; Maldonado, José; Gómez Vida, José; Hillman, Charles H.; Erickson, Kirk I.; Kramer, Arthur F.; Catena, Andrés; Ortega, Francisco B.; Institute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOOD
    The aim of this study was to examine whether metabolically healthy overweight/obese children have greater global and regional gray matter volumes than their metabolically unhealthy peers. We further examined the association between gray matter volume and academic achievement, along with the role of cardiorespiratory fitness in these associations. A total of 97 overweight/obese children (10.0 +/- 1.2 years) participated. We classified children as metabolically healthy/unhealthy based on metabolic syndrome cut-offs. Global and regional brain volumes were assessed by magnetic resonance imaging. Academic achievement was assessed using the Woodcock-Munoz standardized test. Cardiorespiratory fitness was assessed by the 20 m shuttle run test. Metabolically healthy overweight/obese (MHO) children had greater regional gray matter volume compared to those who were metabolically unhealthy (MUO) (all p <= 0.001). A similar trend was observed for global gray matter volume (p = 0.06). Global gray matter volume was positively related to academic achievement (beta = 0.237, p = 0.036). However, all the associations were attenuated or disappeared after adjusting for cardiorespiratory fitness (p > 0.05). The findings of the present study support that metabolically healthy overweight/obese children have greater gray matter volume compared to those that are metabolically unhealthy, which is in turn related to better academic achievement. However, cardiorespiratory fitness seems to explain, at least partially, these findings.
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    Differences in areal bone mineral density between metabolically healthy and unhealthy overweight/obese children: the role of physical activity and cardiorespiratory fitness
    (Springer Nature, 2019) Ubago Guisado, Esther; Gracia-Marco, Luis; Medrano Echeverría, María; Cadenas-Sánchez, Cristina; Arenaza Etxeberría, Lide; Migueles, Jairo H.; Mora González, José; Tobalina, Ignacio; Escolano Margarit, María Victoria; Osés Recalde, Maddi; Martín Matillas, Miguel; Labayen Goñi, Idoia; Ortega, Francisco B.; Institute on Innovation and Sustainable Development in Food Chain - ISFOOD
    Objectives: To examine whether areal bone mineral density (aBMD) differs between metabolically healthy (MHO) and unhealthy (MUO) overweight/obese children and to examine the role of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in this association. Methods: A cross-sectional study was developed in 188 overweight/obese children (10.4 ± 1.2 years) from the ActiveBrains and EFIGRO studies. Participants were classified as MHO or MUO based on Jolliffe and Janssen’s metabolic syndrome cut-off points for triglycerides, glucose, high-density cholesterol and blood pressure. MVPA and CRF were assessed by accelerometry and the 20-m shuttle run test, respectively. Body composition was measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry. Results: In model 1 (adjusted for sex, years from peak high velocity, stature and lean mass), MHO children had significantly higher aBMD in total body less head (Cohen’s d effect size, ES = 0.34), trunk (ES = 0.43) and pelvis (ES = 0.33) than MUO children. These differences were attenuated once MVPA was added to model 1 (model 2), and most of them disappeared once CRF was added to the model 1 (model 3). Conclusions: This novel research shows that MHO children have greater aBMD than their MUO peers. Furthermore, both MVPA and more importantly CRF seem to partially explain these findings.