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Cadenas Sánchez, Cristina; Artero, Enrique G.; Concha, Fernando; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Kain, Juliana (Grupo Aula Medica S.A., 2015)© 2015, Grupo Aula Medica S.A. All rights reserved. The purpose of this study was to describe anthropometric and physical fitness characteristics of low-income Chilean preschool children and to examine whether weight status ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Concha, Fernando; Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela; Lobos, Luz; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (2010)Background: In 2007, a preventive strategy for childhood obesity, that included food education and an increase in physical activity, was implemented in seven public schools located in Santiago. In four of these schools, a ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Soto Sánchez, Johana; Concha, Fernando (BioMed Central, 2018)Objectives: After categorizing preschool children into “active and low active” according to their moderate and vigor‑ ous physical activity (MVPA) in PE classes (PE), we compared these two groups within each sex and by ...
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Kain Berkovic, Juliana; Concha, Fernando; Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela; Leyton Dinamarca, Bárbara; Rodríguez, María del Pilar; Ceballos, Ximena; Vio del Río, Fernando Tomás (2009)Childhood obesity in Chile has been recognized as a public health problem. In 2006, we developed a school-based obesity prevention pilot project to intervene during 5 months preschool and schoolchildren from 1st to 4th ...
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Salazar Rodríguez, Gabriela; Vásquez Vergara, Fabián; Concha, Fernando; Rodríguez, María del Pilar; Berlanga, María del Rocío; Rojas, Juanita; Muñoz, Alvaro; Andrade, Margarita (Grupo Aula Medica S.A., 2014)Introduction: A pilot intervention was conducted to promote physical activity and nutrition in public preschool education (near half a million children in Chile), in order to prevent obesity. Objective: To assess the primary ...