Daily Step-Based Recommendations Related to Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior in Adolescents

Table 7. Comparison of estimated maximum oxygen uptake levels (ml/ kg/ min) between adolescents who met and did not meet the daily step-based recommendations related to both achieving at least 60 min per day of MVPA and having less than 69% of the day in SB.

MVPA^a	SB^a	Not meeting		Meeting		Mann-Whitney U test			RR (95% CI)^b
MVPA^a	SB^a	n	Mdn (IQR)	n	Mdn (IQR)	Z	p	r	RR (95% CI)^b
Uncensored total steps	Minutes 0 steps/ min	47	41.1 (7.9)	13	41.1 (6.0)	1.442	0.149	0.19	2.82 (0.80-10.01)
Censored total steps	Minutes 0 steps/ min	46	41.1 (7.9)	20	41.6 (7.1)	1.745	0.081	0.21	2.29 (0.79-6.68)
Uncensored total steps	Steps bottom 600 min	61	39.4 (7.6)	11	41.1 (3.7)	1.590	0.112	0.19	3.10 (0.82-11.79)
Censored total steps	Steps bottom 600 min	60	39.4 (7.3)	18	41.6 (4.8)	1.973	0.048	0.22	2.32 (0.80-6.77)
Min ≥ 65 steps/ min	Uncensored total steps	52	39.0 (7.9)	18	43.8 (6.7)	2.769	0.006	0.33	4.91 (1.51-15.97)
Min ≥ 65 steps/ min	Censored total steps	65	38.5 (7.9)	18	43.8 (6.7)	2.874	0.004	0.32	4.44 (1.41-14.00)
Min ≥ 65 steps/ min	Minutes 0 steps/ min	46	41.1 (7.9)	12	42.5 (4.6)	1.751	0.079	0.23	3.75 (0.98-14.39)
Min ≥ 65 steps/ min	Steps bottom 600 min	60	39.4 (7.3)	10	42.5 (4.0)	1.926	0.054	0.23	4.33 (1.01-18.53)
Steps ≥ 65 steps/ min	Uncensored total steps	52	39.0 (7.9)	20	43.8 (6.4)	2.748	0.006	0.32	4.41 (1.45-13.43)
Steps ≥ 65 steps/ min	Censored total steps	65	38.5 (7.9)	20	43.8 (6.4)	2.866	0.004	0.31	3.99 (1.35-11.75)
Steps ≥ 65 steps/ min	Minutes 0 steps/ min	45	41.1 (7.9)	13	43.8 (5.1)	1.949	0.050	0.26	4.08 (1.08-15.37)
Steps ≥ 65 steps/ min	Steps bottom 600 min	59	39.4 (7.4)	11	43.8 (4.9)	2.176	0.030	0.26	4.83 (1.16-20.16)
Peak 1-min cadence	Uncensored total steps	45	38.5 (6.2)	36	42.1 (6.3)	3.379	0.001	0.38	4.32 (1.69-11.07)
Peak 1-min cadence	Censored total steps	55	38.5 (6.2)	33	42.1 (7.2)	3.446	0.001	0.37	3.62 (1.46-9.00)
Peak 1-min cadence	Minutes 0 steps/ min	37	39.4 (6.6)	28	42.1 (4.9)	2.628	0.009	0.33	4.26 (1.49-12.11)
Peak 1-min cadence	Steps bottom 600 min	47	38.5 (6.2)	22	42.9 (4.2)	3.198	0.001	0.39	5.05 (1.69-15.08)

MVPA, Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity; SB, Sedentary behavior; Mdn, Median; IQR, Interquartile range; r, Rosenthal’s r effect size; RR (95% CI), Risk ratio (95% confident interval).^a The step-based cut-off points used are those reported in the Tables 4 and 6; b Healthy vs. unhealthy cardiorespiratory fitness profiles (Welk et al., 2011).