NCT03085498

Sportcheck Follow-Up

Sportcheck Follow-Up: Physical Fitness, Cardiovascular and Psychosocial Health in Primary School Childen

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 280 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Basel · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study resembles a four-year follow-up on the influence of physical activity and fitness, blood pressure, BMI and stress on vascular health in primary schoolchildren. It examines the predictive value of retinal vessel diameters for the development of childhood hypertension.

Detailed description

The study aims to examine the usefulness of retinal vessel analysis in childhood cardiovascular prevention. It investigates the long-term influence of physical activity and fitness on retinal vessel diameters, blood pressure, BMI and psychosocial stress in children. The study aims to set new standards for an integrative primary prevention concept to initiate healthy ageing from childhood to adulthood.

Conditions

• Cardiovascular Diseases
• Childhood Obesity
• Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	No intervention	no intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-01
• Primary completion: 2018-07-07
• Completion: 2018-10-01
• First posted: 2017-03-21
• Last updated: 2018-10-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland