Francisco B Ortega

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Universidad de Granada

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Francisco B Ortega is a Professor at the University of Granada, Spain. His research focuses on the intersection of physical activity, health, and mental well-being, particularly in the context of coronary artery disease, obesity, and childhood fitness. Recent articles include investigations into exercise effects on quality of life, cardiorespiratory fitness, and the relationships between physical activity and cognitive health. He is actively involved in developing platforms for health-related fitness assessments and promoting physical activity among children and adolescents.

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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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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

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

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

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

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

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

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

Interplay between physical activity, tau pathophysiology, and cognition

Virtual reality sports to tackle pediatric obesity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Collaborators (41)

Pedro J Benito

Jose J. Gil-Cosano

Mairena Sánchez López

Mattias Brunström

Tamás Csányi

María Medrano

Irene Esteban‐Cornejo

Grant Tomkinson

Marcela González-Gross

Lucía Victoria Torres López

Elísabet Einarsdóttir

Ben Singh

Francisco J. Esteban

Juha Kere

Thijs Eijsvogels

Charles Hillman

David Jiménez-Pavón

Jairo H Migueles

Timo Lakka

Cristina Cadenas-Sanchez

Sergio Núñez de Arenas-Arroyo

Ana Rodriguez Larrad

Janusz Dobosz

Pontus Henriksson

Anna Nordström

Brendan T. O'Keeffe

Andres Catena

Martin Neovius

Germán Vicente-Rodríguez

Asier Mañas Bote

José Castro-Piñero

Viktor Ahlqvist

JONATAN RUIZ

Arantxa Villanueva

Maddi Oses

Diego Moliner-Urdiales

Peter Nordström

Elina Sillanpää

Enrique G. Artero

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