Physical Activity Levels of High School Students

Physical Activity Levels of High School Students - United States, 2010

MMWR has released a new study on the physical activity levels of American high school students compared to HP2020 objectives. Highlights include:

Nationwide, 15.3% of high school students met the HP 2020 objective for aerobic activity.
A higher percentage of male (21.9%) compared with female (8.4%) students; 9th-grade (18.5%) compared with 10th-grade (15.3%), 11th-grade (13.3%), and 12th-grade (13.1%) students; white (16.9%) compared with Hispanic (11.8%) students; and under/normal weight (16.3%) and overweight (16.5%) students compared with those with obesity (10.7%) met the aerobic objective.
51.0% of high school students met the HP 2020 objective for muscle-strengthening activity.
12.2% of high school students met the HP 2020 objective for both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities.

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