The study aims to investigate the impact of environmental, lifestyle, social and cultural factors on fitness parameters and cardiovascular disease risk factors in children and adolescents aged 9 and 15 years of different sex, culture, and ethnicity. A special focus of this study was to analyze assoziations between physical activity, sedentary behavior and fitness with obesity and metabolic outcomes. In a representative sample of children, physical, anthropometric, biochemical, and lifestyle variables were assessed and compared for age, gender and urban and rural differences respectively. The selected age-group and research methodology allows integrating these data into the European data pool and comparing for regional specifics.

Studies have been published: https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-017-4727-4

Duration: 2013 - 2015

Project management:
Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Barbara Wessner

Cooperation partner:
University of Prishtina, Faculty for Sport Science, Mother Teresa Str. 10000, Prishtina –Kosovo, Sport University Tirana, Rr. "Muhamet Gjollesha", 1000, Tirana - Albania

Contact: Assoc. Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Barbara Wessner, barbara.wessner@univie.ac.at