%0 Journal Article
	%A Joe Walsh and  Mike Climstein and  Ian Timothy Heazlewood and  Stephen Burke and  Jyrki Kettunen and  Kent Adams and  Mark DeBeliso
	%D 2011
	%J International Journal of Medical and Health Sciences
	%B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
	%I Open Science Index 56, 2011
	%T Improved Body Mass Index Classification for Football Code Masters Athletes, A Comparison to the Australian National Population
	%U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/15985
	%V 56
	%X Thousands of masters athletes participate
quadrennially in the World Masters Games (WMG), yet this cohort
of athletes remains proportionately under-investigated. Due to a
growing global obesity pandemic in context of benefits of physical
activity across the lifespan, the prevalence of obesity in this unique
population was of particular interest. Data gathered on a sub-sample
of 535 football code athletes, aged 31-72 yrs ( =47.4, s =±7.1),
competing at the Sydney World Masters Games (2009) demonstrated
a significantly (p
	%P 358 - 361