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University of North Dakota

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

2018

Cardiorespiratory fitness

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Response To Criticisms Of The 20-M Shuttle Run Test — Deflections, Distortions, And Distractions, Grant R. Tomkinson, Justin J. Lang, Luc A. Léger, Francisco B. Ortega, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Mark S. Tremblay Nov 2018

Response To Criticisms Of The 20-M Shuttle Run Test — Deflections, Distortions, And Distractions, Grant R. Tomkinson, Justin J. Lang, Luc A. Léger, Francisco B. Ortega, Jonatan R. Ruiz, Mark S. Tremblay

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

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Utility Of International Normative 20 M Shuttle Run Values For Identifying Youth At Increased Cardiometabolic Risk, Duncan S. Buchan, Gareth Knox, Anwen M. Jones, Grant Tomkinson, Julien S. Baker Aug 2018

Utility Of International Normative 20 M Shuttle Run Values For Identifying Youth At Increased Cardiometabolic Risk, Duncan S. Buchan, Gareth Knox, Anwen M. Jones, Grant Tomkinson, Julien S. Baker

Education, Health & Behavior Studies Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study was to examine the ability of international normative centiles for the 20 m shuttle run test (20mSRT) to identify youth at increased cardiometabolic risk. This was a cross-sectional study involving 961 children aged 10–17 years (53% girls) from the United Kingdom. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves determined the discriminatory ability of cardiorespiratory fitness percentiles for predicting increased cardiometabolic risk. ROC analysis demonstrated a significant but poor discriminatory accuracy of cardiorespiratory fitness in identifying low/high cardiometabolic risk in girls (AUC = 0.58, 95% CI: 0.54–0.63; p = 0.04), and in boys (AUC = 0.59, 95% CI: …