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Physical activity interventions show small positive associations with attention and mathematics performance in children and adolescents, though the effect sizes are modest and sensitive to small-study bias.
What it shows: Meta-analysis of 40 RCTs; trim-and-fill analyses suggest publication bias and imputed missing studies; 95% confidence intervals of adjusted estimates included null, indicating uncertainty; subgroup comparisons were descriptive and formal tests of differences between subgroups were not conducted.Meta-analysis · Eur J Pediatr