Within included studies, ACS was positively associated with cognitive performance and academic achievement in adolescent girls but not adolescent boys¶

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q2 i? Three included studies found ACS positively associated with better cognitive performance and academic achievement in adolescent girls but not in adolescent boys, suggesting a possible sex-specific effect in adolescents. → Ruiz-Hermosa A. 2019

Evidence¶

Ruiz-Hermosa A. 2019¶

Ruiz-Hermosa A., Álvarez-Bueno C., Cavero-Redondo I., Martínez-Vizcaíno V., Redondo-Tébar A., Sánchez-López M. (2019). Active Commuting to and from School, Cognitive Performance, and Academic Achievement in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Observational Studies. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16101839

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The review's synthesis of sex-subgroup findings from three included cross-sectional studies (Ruiz-Ariza et al., Van Dijk et al., Martínez-Gómez et al.). The review attributes this pattern to those studies; it reports no pooled effect size for the sex contrast.

"However, three studies [42,46,50] found that ACS was positively associated with better cognitive performance and academic achievement in adolescent girls but not in adolescent boys."

Discussion¶

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