Secular Trends in Gross Motor Coordination: A Study of Peruvian Children Living at High Altitude
Secular trends in GMC were negative in Peruvian children, especially at 6-8 years of age. Further, body size and physical fitness trends did not affect the negative secular trend. A high prevalence of children had below-normal GMC in both 2009 and 2019.
Authors
- Carla Santos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4607-7292)
- Donald Hedeker (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8134-6094)
- José Maia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3273-0046)
- Fernando Garbeloto (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8024-909X)
- Peter T. Katzmarzyk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9280-6022)
- Sara Pereira (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4661-3879)
- Olga Vasconcelos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4505-0653)
- Alcibíades Bustamante (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2737-4286)
- Go Tani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6517-5472)
Institutions
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center (US)
- Chicago Department of Public Health (US)
- Universidade de São Paulo (BR)
- Universidade do Porto (PT)
- University of Chicago (US)
- National University of Education Enrique Guzmán y Valle (PE)
- Universidade Lusófona (PT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Exercise Science
- Published
- 2024-09-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1123/pes.2023-0170
- Primary Topic
- Children's Physical and Motor Development
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00