Journal article
Prediction of energy expenditure and physical activity in preschoolers
Medicine and science in sports and exercise, v 46(6), pp 1216-1226
Jun 2014
PMID: 24195866
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Abstract
Accurate, nonintrusive, and feasible methods are needed to predict energy expenditure (EE) and physical activity (PA) levels in preschoolers. Herein, we validated cross-sectional time series (CSTS) and multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS) models based on accelerometry and heart rate (HR) for the prediction of EE using room calorimetry and doubly labeled water (DLW) and established accelerometry cut points for PA levels.
Fifty preschoolers, mean ± SD age of 4.5 ± 0.8 yr, participated in room calorimetry for minute-by-minute measurements of EE, accelerometer counts (AC) (Actiheart and ActiGraph GT3X+), and HR (Actiheart). Free-living 105 children, ages 4.6 ± 0.9 yr, completed the 7-d DLW procedure while wearing the devices. AC cut points for PA levels were established using smoothing splines and receiver operating characteristic curves.
On the basis of calorimetry, mean percent errors for EE were -2.9% ± 10.8% and -1.1% ± 7.4% for CSTS models and -1.9% ± 9.6% and 1.3% ± 8.1% for MARS models using the Actiheart and ActiGraph+HR devices, respectively. On the basis of DLW, mean percent errors were -0.5% ± 9.7% and 4.1% ± 8.5% for CSTS models and 3.2% ± 10.1% and 7.5% ± 10.0% for MARS models using the Actiheart and ActiGraph+HR devices, respectively. Applying activity EE thresholds, final accelerometer cut points were determined: 41, 449, and 1297 cpm for Actiheart x-axis; 820, 3908, and 6112 cpm for ActiGraph vector magnitude; and 240, 2120, and 4450 cpm for ActiGraph x-axis for sedentary/light, light/moderate, and moderate/vigorous PA (MVPA), respectively. On the basis of confusion matrices, correctly classified rates were 81%-83% for sedentary PA, 58%-64% for light PA, and 62%-73% for MVPA.
The lack of bias and acceptable limits of agreement affirms the validity of the CSTS and MARS models for the prediction of EE in preschool-aged children. Accelerometer cut points are satisfactory for the classification of sedentary, light, and moderate/vigorous levels of PA in preschoolers.
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- Title
- Prediction of energy expenditure and physical activity in preschoolers
- Creators
- Nancy F Butte - 1USDA/ARS Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX; 2Department of Applied Economics and Statistics, University of Delaware, Newark, DE; and 3Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PAWilliam W WongJong Soo LeeAnne L AdolphMaurice R PuyauIssa F Zakeri
- Publication Details
- Medicine and science in sports and exercise, v 46(6), pp 1216-1226
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- R01 DK085163 / NIDDK NIH HHS
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Epidemiology and Biostatistics
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000336966200018
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84901346822
- Other Identifier
- 991014878303804721
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