Cardiorespiratory Fitness Cut-Points Related to Body Adiposity Parameters in Macedonian Children

Background and Objectives: There is a shortage of criteria referent standards for tests logistic application meant to estimate the cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) children adolescents in Republic North Macedonia. The goal research was twofold: (1) To identify ability CRF estimated by 20-m shuttle-run test (20mSRT) discriminate between “healthy” “unhealthy” phenotypes (by adiposity measures such as WC WHR) children; (2) determine correlation obesity relatively maximum oxygen consumption (VO2 peak) tested on large respondents’ sample Macedonian children. conducted 1,863 respondents, 957 (51.4%) whom were boys, 906 (48.6%) girls at age 7 10 years. All them from 19 primary schools central eastern parts 
 Materials Methods: waist circumference (WC) waist-to-height ratio (WHtR) used body markers. measured using 20mSRT peak). Receiver operating characteristic curves regression applied order establish discriminative power anticipating parameters Results: With regard both boys girls, VO2 peak showed considerable predictive identifying (area under curve [AUC] > 0.66). In when considering full (7-10 years), best cut-point detect fat 48.8 mL•kg−1•min−1 WHtR 47.4 mL•kg−1•min−1. For 47.1 Conclusions: According these cut-points, with low more likely be obese either or WHtR. border values (cut-points) can quantitative markers healthier characteristics