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Laboratory-based lower-limb muscular strength (1-RM leg press) is associated with mathematics skills and persists after adjustment for BMI and cardiorespiratory fitness

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q2 i2 1-RM leg press was associated with mathematics (β=0.251) and calculation skills (β=0.306) in Model 1, and remained significant after additional adjustment for BMI and cardiorespiratory fitness (mathematics β=0.316; calculation skills β=0.383). → Cadenas-Sanchez 2020

Evidence

Cadenas-Sanchez 2020

Cadenas-Sanchez, C., Migueles, J. H., Esteban-Cornejo, I., Mora-Gonzalez, J., Henriksson, P., Rodriguez-Ayllon, M., Molina-García, P., Löf, M., Labayen, I., Hillman, C. H., Catena, A., & Ortega, F. B. (2020). Fitness, physical activity, and academic achievement in overweight/obese children. Journal of Sports Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2020.1729516

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Cross-sectional regression in 106 children with overweight/obesity (1-RM subsample n=88). The laboratory tests "only showed significant associations between the lower-limbs muscular strength (i.e.1-RM leg press) and mathematics skills measured by Woodcock-Muñoz (all β≥0.251, all p<0.01)"; Table 3 prints Model 2 mathematics β=0.316 and calculation skills β=0.383, the only association surviving Model 2 adjustment.

"The laboratory fitness tests only showed significant associations between the lower-limbs muscular strength (i.e.1-RM leg press) and mathematics skills measured by Woodcock-Muñoz (all β≥0.251, all p<0.01)"

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type claim
id leg-press-mathematics-association-persists-adjustment
title Laboratory-based lower-limb muscular strength (1-RM leg press) is associated with mathematics skills and persists after adjustment for BMI and cardiorespiratory fitness
description Laboratory-based lower-limb muscular strength (1-RM leg press) is associated with mathematics skills and persists after adjustment for BMI and cardiorespiratory fitness
status review
evidence_strength moderate
newest_evidence 2020
generated by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-16
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