Development of Youth Aerobic-Capacity Standards Using Receiver Operating Characteristic Curves

• Published in: American journal of preventive medicine Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. S111 - S116
• Main Authors: Welk, Gregory J., Laurson, Kelly R., Eisenmann, Joey C., Cureton, Kirk J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.10.2011
• Subjects: Adolescent; Aerobic fitness; Age Factors; Area Under Curve; Cardiovascular Diseases - diagnosis; Child; Exercise - physiology; Female; Fitness; Gender differences; Health; Heart Rate; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Metabolic syndrome; Metabolic Syndrome - diagnosis; Oxygen Consumption - physiology; Physical Fitness - physiology; Reference Standards; Risk Factors; ROC Curve; Sex Factors; Thresholds

Cardiovascular fitness has important implications for current and future health in children. In this paper, criterion-referenced standards are developed for aerobic capacity (an indicator of cardiovascular fitness) based on receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves. The sample was drawn from pa...