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      <dc:title>Mediation Role of Physical Fitness and Its Components on the Association Between Distribution-Related Fat Indicators and Adolescents’ Cognitive Performance: Exploring the Influence of School Vulnerability. The Cogni-Action Project</dc:title>
      <dc:creator>Hernández Jaña, Sam</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Solís Urra, Patricio</dc:creator>
      <dc:creator>Esteban Cornejo, Irene</dc:creator>
      <dc:subject>Cognition</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Physical activity</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Children</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>School</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Obesity</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Fatness</dc:subject>
      <dc:subject>Fat distribution</dc:subject>
      <dc:description>The ``Cogni-Action Project'' was supported by the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research CONICYT/FONDECYT INICIACION 2016 grant no. 11160703. IE-C was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (RYC2019-027287-I).</dc:description>
      <dc:description>Background: Physical fitness and fatness converge simultaneously modulating cognitive&#xd;
skills, which in turn, are associated with children and adolescents’ socioeconomic&#xd;
background. However, both fitness components and fat mass localization are crucial&#xd;
for understanding its implication at the cognitive level.&#xd;
Objective: This study aimed to determine the mediation role of a global physical fitness&#xd;
score and its components on the association between different fatness indicators related&#xd;
to fat distribution and adolescents’ cognitive performance, and simultaneously explore&#xd;
the influence of school vulnerability.&#xd;
Methods: In this study, 1,196 Chilean adolescents participated (aged 10–14; 50.7%&#xd;
boys). Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF), muscular fitness (MF), and speed-agility fitness&#xd;
(SAF) were evaluated, and a global fitness score (GFS) was computed adjusted for&#xd;
age and sex (CRF + MF + SAF z-scores). Body mass index z-score (BMIz), sumof-&#xd;
4-skinfolds (4SKF), and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) were used as non-specific,&#xd;
peripheral, and central adiposity indicators, respectively. A global cognitive score was computed based on eight tasks, and the school vulnerability index (SVI) was registered&#xd;
as high, mid or low. A total of 24 mediation analyses were performed according to&#xd;
two models, adjusted for sex and peak high velocity (Model 1), and adding the school&#xd;
vulnerability index (SVI) in Model 2. The significance level was set at p &lt; 0.05.&#xd;
Results: The fitness mediation role was different concerning the fatness indicators&#xd;
related to fat distribution analyzed. Even after controlling for SVI, CRF (22%), and SAF&#xd;
(29%), but not MF, mediated the association between BMIz and cognitive performance.&#xd;
Likewise, CRF, SAF and GFS, but not MF, mediated the association between WHtR and&#xd;
cognitive performance (38.6%, 31.9%, and 54.8%, respectively). No mediations were&#xd;
observed for 4SKF.&#xd;
Conclusion: The negative association between fatness and cognitive performance&#xd;
is mitigated by the level of adolescents’ physical fitness, mainly CRF and SAF. This&#xd;
mediation role seems to be more consistent with a central fat indicator even in the&#xd;
presence of school vulnerability. Strategies promoting physical fitness would reduce the&#xd;
cognitive gap in children and adolescents related to obesity and school vulnerability.</dc:description>
      <dc:date>2021-10-18T11:17:57Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2021-10-18T11:17:57Z</dc:date>
      <dc:date>2021-09-08</dc:date>
      <dc:type>info:eu-repo/semantics/article</dc:type>
      <dc:identifier>Hernández-Jaña S... [et al.] (2021) Mediation Role of Physical Fitness and Its Components on the Association Between Distribution-Related Fat Indicators and Adolescents’ Cognitive Performance: Exploring the Influence of School Vulnerability. The Cogni-Action Project. Front. Behav. Neurosci. 15:746197. doi: [10.3389/fnbeh.2021.746197]</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10481/70933</dc:identifier>
      <dc:identifier>10.3389/fnbeh.2021.746197</dc:identifier>
      <dc:language>eng</dc:language>
      <dc:rights>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/</dc:rights>
      <dc:rights>info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess</dc:rights>
      <dc:rights>Atribución 3.0 España</dc:rights>
      <dc:publisher>Frontiers Research Foundation</dc:publisher>
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