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AFL consisted of 24 group family-based, nutrition and sport\/fitness oriented 90-minute sessions (twice-weekly). Measures included 1-mile run\/walk time, three-minute step test, accelerometer-measured physical activity, body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, DEXA-measured % body fat, cardiometabolic risk biomarkers, and sociodemographic characteristics. Group differences at post-intervention were tested using ANCOVA analyses adjusting for outcome values at baseline and demographic variables.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Parents were primarily female (93%), aged 38.3 \u00b1 6.9 years, and 96% Latino and children were 8.8 \u00b1 1.7 years old and 58% female. Intervention participants showed significantly faster adjusted post-intervention 1-mile run\/walk times compared to control group participants (difference of \u221276.6 seconds\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.01 and \u221244 seconds\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.04, respectively). Parents also showed a significantly higher adjusted relative VO\n                      <jats:sub>2<\/jats:sub>\n                      max (ml\/kg\/min) compared to control group parents (43.91, SE = 0.41 vs 42.93, SE = 0.44, respectively,\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.01). There were no significant post-intervention group differences on physical activity, BMI, waist circumference, % body fat or cardiometabolic biomarkers\n                      <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                      &gt; 0.05.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The AFL program successfully improved aerobic performance among underserved Latino families with no observable changes in adiposity. These results support that fitness may be a more viable and acceptable outcome among Latino families than weight loss.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/08901171251316926","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,29]],"date-time":"2025-01-29T13:48:10Z","timestamp":1738158490000},"page":"786-795","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":2,"title":["Efficacy of a Community- and Family-Based Intervention on Cardiovascular Fitness and Cardiometabolic Disease Risk Factors Among Primarily Latino Families"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"39","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2302-5257","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Noe C.","family":"Crespo","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"San Diego State University, School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8089-0725","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sonia","family":"Vega-L\u00f3pez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Arizona State University, College of Health Solutions and Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center, Phoenix, AZ, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jacob","family":"Szeszulski","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Texas A&amp;M University, Department of Nutrition, College Station, TX, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael","family":"Todd","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Arizona State University, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation, Phoenix, AZ, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Alma I.","family":"Behar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"San Diego State University, School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Frank","family":"Ray","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"City of Phoenix, Parks and Recreation Department, Phoenix, AZ, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Leopoldo","family":"Hartmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Family Medicine, Sierra Vista, Bakersfield, CA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Anabell Lorenzo","family":"Quintero","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Family Medicine, Sierra Vista, Bakersfield, CA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Eric T.","family":"Hyde","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"San Diego State University, School of Public Health, San Diego, CA, USA"},{"name":"University of California San Diego, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, CA, USA"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"179","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,1,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_3_4_2_2","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1001\/jama.2012.14517"},{"key":"e_1_3_4_3_2","article-title":"Prevalence of obesity among children and adolescents: United States, trends 1963\u20131965 through 2007\u20132008","author":"Ogden CL","unstructured":"Ogden CL, Carroll MD. 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