Becky Breau, Mirko Brandes, Toomas Veidebaum, Michael Tornaritis, Luis A. Moreno, Denes Molnar, Lauren Lissner, Gabriele Eiben, Fabio Lauria, Jaakko Kaprio, et al.
Background: This study aimed to examine associations of early childhood physical fitness and physical activity (PA) with PA during later childhood/early adolescence while accounting for gender differences. Methods: We selected data of N = 4329 children from the IDEFICS/I. Family cohort (age 2.4-11.7 years) with data on baseline fitness and accelerometer measurements. At baseline, physical fitness tests were conducted including Flamingo balance, ...