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Study Links Muscle Strength to Teenagers’ Heart Health
Although most clinicians may recommend dietary modification and physical activity to patients who want to lose weight, “muscular strength capacity may be an equally important component of metabolic fitness among children and adolescents because it provides protection against insulin resistance,” the researchers write.
They conclude, “[G]reater clinical attention to and support of early behavioral interventions to increase [physical activity], reduce adiposity, and increase muscular strength capacity are certainly warranted.”
This research was supported by the Memorial Healthcare Foundation, Owosso, Michigan. The authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
Pediatrics. Published online March 31, 2014.
Muscle strength may be as important as diet and exercise in losing or controlling weight and maintaining cardiometabolic health for adolescents.
Mark D. Peterson, PhD, from the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and colleagues conducted a principal components analysis to develop a cardiometabolic risk score in adolescents participating in the Cardiovascular Health Intervention Program, a population-based study of sixth graders in Michigan.
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