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Validity of heart rate, pedometry, and accelerometry for predicting the energy cost of children’s activities

Eston, Roger G., Rowlands, Ann V., Ingledew, David K.·1998·Journal of Applied Physiology
DOI 10.1152/jappl.1998.84.1.362
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Eston, Roger G., Ann V. Rowlands, and David K. Ingledew.Validity of heart rate, pedometry, and accelerometry for predicting the energy cost of children’s activities. J. Appl. Physiol. 84(1): 362–371, 1998.—Heart rate telemetry is frequently used to estimate daily activity in children and to validate other methods. This study compared the accuracy of heart rate monitoring, pedometry, triaxial accelerometry, and uniaxial accelerometry for estimating oxygen consumption during typical children’s activities. Thirty Welsh children (mean age 9.2 ± 0.8 yr) walked (4 and 6 km/h) and ran (8 and 10 km/h) on a treadmill, played catch, played hopscotch, and sat and crayoned. Heart rate, body accelerations in three axes, pedometry counts, and oxygen uptake were measured continuously during each 4-min activity. Oxygen uptake was expressed as a ratio of body mass raised to the power of 0.75 [scaled oxygen uptake (sV˙o 2 )]. All measures correlated significantly ( P < 0.001) with sV˙o 2 . A multiple-regression equation that included triaxial accelerometry counts and heart rate predicted sV˙o 2 better than any measure alone ( R 2 = 0.85, standard error of the estimate = 9.7 ml ⋅ kg −0.75 ⋅ min −1 ). The best of the single measures was triaxial accelerometry ( R 2 = 0.83, standard error of the estimate = 10.3 ml ⋅ kg −0.75 ⋅ min −1 ). It is concluded that a triaxial accelerometer provides the best assessment of activity. Pedometry offers potential for large population studies.

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Authors
Eston, R. G., Rowlands, A. V., & Ingledew, D. K.
Affiliations
Bangor University (GB)
ORCID
Eston, Roger G.
Venue
Journal of Applied Physiology
Publisher
American Physiological Society
Published
1998-01-01
Volume
84
Issue
1
Pages
362-371
ISSN
  • 0161-7567 (ISSN-L)
  • 8750-7587
  • 1522-1601
DOI
10.1152/jappl.1998.84.1.362
OpenAlex
W1916816488
Cited by
643
References
29
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FWCI
7.15
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Journal of Applied Physiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Physical Activity and Health
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
Keywords
children's physical activity, heart rate monitoring, pedometry, triaxial accelerometry, oxygen consumption, physical activity energy expenditure, method validation, walking and running
MeSH terms
Acceleration, Blood Gas Analysis, Child, Energy Metabolism, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Male, Motor Activity, Oxygen Consumption, Predictive Value of Tests, Running, Telemetry, Walking

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