Association Between Ideal Cardiovascular Health and Executive Function in Chinese Primary School Children.
Front Public Health
; 9: 736424, 2021.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1775879
ABSTRACT
Aims:
Little information exists on the associations of cardiovascular health, a new metric proposed by the American Heart Association, and executive function, particularly in children. We aimed to explore this topic.Methods:
We studied 3,798 children aged 6-12 years from 5 schools in Guangzhou, China. The executive function of children was evaluated using parent reports of the Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function, which included 2 composite indexes and 8 subscale scores. We calculated the number of ideal cardiovascular health (range 0-7) based on smoking, body mass index, physical activity (PA), diet, blood pressure, cholesterol, and glucose. A generalized linear mixed model was used to assess the association of the number of ideal cardiovascular health metrics and executive function.Results:
Compared with children exhibiting 1-3 ideal cardiovascular health metrics, decreases of 1.37-2.63 points (indicating better performance) in metacognition index and its 5 subscale indexes (initiate, working memory, plan/organize, organization of materials, and monitor) were observed in children who attained 5 or 6-7 ideal metrics (all p for trend <0.001). Ideal diet and ideal PA were independently associated with lower indexes of behavioral regulation and metacognition.Conclusions:
The number of ideal cardiovascular health was positively associated with performance of executive function in children.Keywords
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Executive Function
Type of study:
Experimental Studies
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
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Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
Front Public Health
Year:
2021
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Fpubh.2021.736424
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