Sedentarism and Physical Inactivity Patterns Correlated with HOMA-IR in European Adolescents, the Helena Study

Kondakis Makra Aikaterini^1*, Katerina Kondaki¹, Georgia Kurlaba¹, Evangelia Grammatikaki¹, Yannis Manios¹, David Jiménez Pavón², Stefaan De Henauw³, Marcela González-Gross⁴, Michael Sjöstrom⁵, Frédéric Gottrand⁶, Dénes Molnar⁷, Luis A Moreno⁸, Anthony Kafatos⁹, Chantal Gilbert¹⁰ and Mathilde Kersting¹¹

¹Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece

²Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Granada, Granada, Spain

³Department of Public Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

⁴Department of Health and Human Performance, Facultad de Ciencias de la Actividad Física y del Deporte, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

⁵Karolinska Institutet, Sweden

⁶Faculté de médecine, University of Lille 2, Lille, France

⁷Department of Pediatrics, University of Pécs, Pécs, Hungary

⁸Escuela Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

⁹Preventive Medicine and Nutrition Unit, University of Crete School of Medicine, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

¹⁰Campden BRI, United Kingdom

¹¹Research Institute of Child Nutrition Dortmund, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany

^*Corresponding Author: Kondakis Makra Aikaterini, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece, Tel: 00306947202356, Fax: 00302130222789