@article{ref1,
title="Bicycling to school improves the cardiometabolic risk factor profile: a randomised controlled trial",
journal="BMJ open",
year="2012",
author="Ostergaard, Lars and Borrestad, Line Anita B. and Tarp, Jakob and Andersen, Lars Bo",
volume="2",
number="6",
pages="e001307-e001307",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: To investigate whether bicycling to school improves cardiometabolic risk factor profile and cardiorespiratory fitness among children. <br><br>DESIGN: Prospective, blinded, randomised controlled trial. Setting: Single centre study in Odense, Denmark Participants: 43 children previously not bicycling to school were randomly allocated to control group (n=20) (ie, no change in lifestyle) or intervention group (ie, bicycling to school) (n=23). Primary and secondary outcome measures: Change in cardiometabolic risk factor score and change in cardiorespiratory fitness. <br><br>RESULTS: All participants measured at baseline returned at follow-up. Based upon intention-to-treat (ITT) analyses, clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors was lowered by 0.58 SD (95% CI -1.03 to -0.14, p=0.012) in the bicycling group compared to the control group. Cardiorespiratory fitness (l O-2/min) per se did not increase significantly more in the intervention than in the control group (beta=0.0337, 95% CI -0.06 to 0.12, p=0.458). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Bicycling to school counteracted a clustering of cardiometabolic risk factors and should thus be recognised as potential prevention of type 2 diabetes mellitus and cardiovascular disease (CVD). The intervention did, however, not elicit a larger increase in cardiorespiratory fitness in the intervention group as compared with the control group.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2044-6055",
doi="10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001307",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-001307"
}