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Francisco B Ortega

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Universidad de Granada

Spain

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Research Interests

Pediatric Nutrition

40%

Sports Nutrition

40%

Pediatric Obesity

60%

Obesity

40%

Metabolism

30%

Adipose Tissue Biology

20%

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

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HELENA project: Healthy Lifestyle in Europe by Nutrition in Adolescents

Open Date: 2005-01-01

Close Date: 2008-12-01

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Adolescent cardiorespiratory fitness and risk of cancer in late adulthood: A nationwide sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden

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2025

Exercise type and settings, quality of life, and mental health in coronary artery disease: a network meta-analysis

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2025

Cardiorespiratory fitness in adolescence and risk of type 2 diabetes in late adulthood in one million Swedish men: nationwide sibling controlled cohort study

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2025

Development of the FitBack online platform: Enhancing global child fitness assessment, health-related interpretation, and surveillance

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2025

Cardiorespiratory fitness and health in children and adolescents: an overview of systematic reviews with meta-analyses representing over 125 000 observations covering 33 health-related outcomes

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2025

New venues to study the effects of exercise on quality of life and mental health in coronary artery disease

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2025

Interplay between physical activity, tau pathophysiology, and cognition

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2025

Virtual reality sports to tackle pediatric obesity

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2025

Sleep Behaviors and the Shape of Subcortical Brain Structures in Children with Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study

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2024

Physical activity, sedentary behavior and microbiome: A systematic review and meta-analysis

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2024

European fitness landscape for children and adolescents: updated reference values, fitness maps and country rankings based on nearly 8 million test results from 34 countries gathered by the FitBack network

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2023

Effects of exercise on whole‐blood transcriptome profile in children with overweight/obesity

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2023

The effects of an exercise intervention on neuroelectric activity and executive function in children with overweight/obesity: The ActiveBrains randomized controlled trial

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2023

Association of muscular strength and targeted proteomics involved in brain health in children with overweight/obesity

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2023

Physical activity, sleep, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A one-year longitudinal study of Spanish university students

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2023

Differences in specific abdominal fat depots between metabolically healthy and unhealthy children with overweight/obesity: The role of cardiorespiratory fitness

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2023

Validity and reliability of the International fItness scale (IFIS) in preschool children

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2023

Physical activity, sedentary time, and fitness in relation to brain shapes in children with overweight/obesity: Links to intelligence

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2023

Cardiorespiratory fitness and targeted proteomics involved in brain and cardiovascular health in children with overweight/obesity

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2023

Association between air pollution and 24-h movement behaviours in a representative sample of Spanish youth

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2022

Collaborators41

Pedro J Benito

Profesor Titular de Universidad

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

SPAIN

Jose J. Gil-Cosano

Assistant Professor

Universidad Loyola Andalucía

SPAIN

Mairena Sánchez López

PROFESOR/A TITULAR DE UNIVERSIDAD

University of Castilla-La Mancha

SPAIN

Mattias Brunström

Umeå Universitet Medicinska fakulteten

SWEDEN

Tamás Csányi

HUNGARY

María Medrano

Assistant Professor

Universidad de Navarra

SPAIN

Irene Esteban‐Cornejo

SPAIN

Grant Tomkinson

University of South Australia

AUSTRALIA

Marcela González-Gross

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

SPAIN

Lucía Victoria Torres López

Teaching staff

Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

SPAIN

Elísabet Einarsdóttir

Karolinska Institutet

SWEDEN

Ben Singh

University of South Australia

AUSTRALIA

Francisco J. Esteban

Tenured Researcher and Lecturer

Universidad de Jaén

SPAIN

Juha Kere

Karolinska Institutet

SWEDEN

Thijs Eijsvogels

Associate Professor

Radboud University Medical Center

NETHERLANDS

Charles Hillman

Professor

Northeastern University

UNITED STATES

David Jiménez-Pavón

Senior Lecturer

Universidad de Cádiz

SPAIN

Jairo H Migueles

Universidad de Granada

SPAIN

Timo Lakka

Professor of Medical Physiology

University of Eastern Finland

FINLAND

Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez

Universidad de Granada

SPAIN

Sergio Núñez de Arenas-Arroyo

University of Castilla-La Mancha

SPAIN

Ana Rodriguez Larrad

Associate Professor

Universidad del País Vasco

SPAIN

Janusz Dobosz

Józef Piłsudski University of Physical Education in Warsaw

POLAND

Pontus Henriksson

Linköping University

SWEDEN

Anna Nordström

Adjunct Professor

Umeå Universitet Medicinska fakulteten

SWEDEN

Brendan T. O'Keeffe

Lecturer in Health and Physical Education

University of Limerick

IRELAND

Andres Catena

Professor

Universidad de Granada

SPAIN

Martin Neovius

Karolinska University Hospital

SWEDEN

Germán Vicente-Rodríguez

Universidad de Zaragoza

SPAIN

Asier Mañas Bote

Assistant Professor

Universidad de Huelva

SPAIN

José Castro-Piñero

Profesor Titular e Universidad

Universidad de Cádiz

SPAIN

Viktor Ahlqvist

Karolinska Institutet

SWEDEN

JONATAN RUIZ

Karolinska Institutet

SWEDEN

Arantxa Villanueva

Universidad de Navarra

SPAIN

Maddi Oses

PhD professor

Universidad de Navarra

SPAIN

Diego Moliner-Urdiales

Professor

Universitat Jaume I

SPAIN

Peter Nordström

Professor

Uppsala University

SWEDEN

Elina Sillanpää

Associate professor of health promotion (tenure track)

University of Jyväskylä

FINLAND

Enrique G. Artero

Tenured Professor

Universidad de Almería

SPAIN

JOAQUIN SANCHIS-MOYSI

Full Professor

Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

SPAIN

S Altmäe

Universidad de Granada

SPAIN

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