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Objectively Measured Physical Activity Reduces the Risk of Mortality among Brazilian Older Adults.
Renata M Bielemann, Andrea Z LaCroix, Andréa D Bertoldi, Elaine Tomasi, Flávio F Demarco, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Pedro Augusto Crespo da Silva, Andrea Wendt, Inácio Crochemore Mohnsam da Silva, Soren Brage, Ulf Ekelund, Michael Pratt
Jan 27, 2021
OBJECTIVES: Use of objectively measured physical activity (PA) in older adults to assess relationship between PA and risk of all-causes mortality is scarce. This study evaluated the associations of PA based on accelerometry and...
Analysis of Cameroon's Sectoral Policies on Physical Activity for Noncommunicable Disease Prevention.
Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Maylene Shung-King, Tolu Oni, James Woodcock, Amy Weimann, Nicole McCreedy, Trish Muzenda, Ishtar Govia, Jean Claude Mbanya, Felix Assah
Dec 22, 2021
Physical inactivity is increasing in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), urbanisation and sedentary living are rapidly growing in tandem. Increasing active living requires the...
Objectively Measured Physical Activity and Polypharmacy Among Brazilian Community-Dwelling Older Adults.
Renata M Bielemann, Marysabel PT Silveira, Bárbara H Lutz, Vanessa IA Miranda, Maria Cristina Gonzalez, Soren Brage, Ulf Ekelund, Andréa Dâmaso Bertoldi
Feb 11, 2021
BACKGROUND: Previous observations regarding association between physical activity (PA) and use of medicines among older adults are derived from self-reported PA. This study aimed to evaluate the association between objectively...
Physical Activity During the Early Years
Daniel D Bingham, Silvia Costa, Trina Hinkley, Katy A Shire, Stacy A Clemes, Sally E Barber
Oct 03, 2018
CONTEXT: Being physically active during the early years (age 0-6 years) is vital for healthy development. Identifying correlates and determinants of physical activity (PA) is crucial to guide effective interventions. This...
Exploring womens’ experiences and decision making about physical activity during pregnancy and following birth
Abstract: Background: Physical activity (PA) tends to decline during pregnancy, and remains low in the early postpartum period, despite the known physical and psychological benefits. This study aimed to explore: (1) women’s...
Number of days required to estimate physical activity constructs objectively measured in different age groups
Luiza Isnardi Cardoso Ricardo, Andrea Wendt, Leony Morgana Galliano, Werner de Andrade Muller, Gloria Izabel Niño Cruz, Fernando Wehrmeister, Soren Brage, Ulf Ekelund, Inácio Crochemore M. Silva
Jan 10, 2020
Purpose: The present study aims to estimate the minimum number of accelerometer measurement days needed to estimate habitual physical activity (PA) among 6- (2010), 18- (2011) and 30- (2012) year-old participants, belonging to...
Changes in physical activity during the retirement transition
Suzanne McDonald, Rute Vieira, Alan Godfrey, Nicola O'Brien, Martin White, Falko F Sniehotta
Mar 05, 2018
BACKGROUND: Existing evidence about the impact of retirement on physical activity (PA) has primarily focused on the average change in PA level after retirement in group-based studies. It is unclear whether findings regarding the...
The Relationship between Nature Connectedness and Physical Activity Patterns in a Sample of Collegiate Students, Faculty, and Staff
Destinee Waddy
Jan 01, 0001
PURPOSE: A strong relationship exists between physical activity (PA) and nature connectedness (NC); the most physically active individuals may also be the most nature connected. Designing PA programs and modifying college...
Published by: Winthrop University
Associations between objective and self-reported physical activity data in rheumatoid arthritis patients
C.-A. Yu, P. Rouse, J. Veldhuijzen Van Zanten, G. Metsios, N. Ntoumanis, G. Kitas, J. Duda
Jun 01, 2014
Background Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients suffer from periodic flare-ups causing joint swelling, pain and potential bone destruction. In addition, RA patient are at greater risk of cardiovascular disease. Therefore, physical...
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Results from New Zealand's 2018 Report Card on Physical Activity for Children and Youth.
Melody Smith, Erika Ikeda, Erica Hinckson, Scott Duncan, Ralph Maddison, Kim Meredith-Jones, Caroline Walker, Sandra Mandic
Jan 06, 2020
In New Zealand (NZ), 88% of health loss is now caused by non-communicable diseases, in part attributed to low levels of physical activity (PA) and high levels of inactivity, and the downstream impacts of these, including...
Development of the Digital Assessment of Precise Physical Activity (DAPPA) tool for older adults
Rosie Essery, James Denison-Day, Elisabeth Grey, Emma Priestley, Katherine Bradbury, Nanette Mutrie, Max Western
Oct 29, 2020
Physical activity (PA) is central to maintaining health and wellbeing as we age. Valid, reliable measurement tools are vital for understanding, and evaluating PA. There are presently limited options for comprehensively...
Physical Activity Differences Related to Gender and Grade Level in Middle School Students
Casey Reeves
Jan 01, 0001
In the last 35 years, the United States youth has experienced a significant rise in obesity levels, and a significant decline in physical activity levels (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2015a; CDC, 2009). A...
Published by: Winthrop University
Associations between access to recreational physical activity facilities and body mass index in Scottish adults.
BACKGROUND: The aim of this country-wide study was to link individual health and behavioural data with area-level spatial data to examine whether the body mass index (BMI) of adults was associated with access to recreational...
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Inter-Device Agreement between Fitbit Flex 1 and 2 for Assessing Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity.
This study examined the inter-model agreement between the Fitbit Flex (FF) and FF2 in estimating sedentary behavior (SED) and physical activity (PA) during a free-living condition. 33 healthy adults wore the FF and FF2 on...
Three Growth Spurts in Global Physical Activity Policies between 2000 and 2019
Trish Muzenda, Maylene Shung-King, Estelle Victoria Lambert, Anna Brugulat Panés, Amy Weimann, Nicole McCreedy, Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Ishtar Govia, Vincent Were, Tolu Oni
Mar 28, 2022
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) contribute significantly to global mortality and are of particular concern in growing urban populations of low- and-middle income countries (LMICs). Physical inactivity is a key NCD determinant...
Physical Activity and Abdominal Fat Distribution in Greenland.
Inger Katrine Dahl-Petersen, Søren Brage, Peter Bjerregaard, Janne Schurmann Tolstrup, Marit Eika Jørgensen
Nov 23, 2017
PURPOSE: We examined how total volume of physical activity and reallocation of time spent at various objectively measured intensities of physical activity (PA) were associated with overall and abdominal fat distribution in adult...
A systematic literature review of reviews on techniques for physical activity measurement in adults
Kieran P Dowd, Robert Szeklicki, Marco Alessandro Minetto, Marie H Murphy, Angela Polito, Ezio Ghigo, Hidde van der Ploeg, Ulf Ekelund, Janusz Maciaszek, Rafal Stemplewski, Maciej Tomczak, Alan E Donnelly
May 24, 2018
The links between increased participation in Physical Activity (PA) and improvements in health are well established. As this body of evidence has grown, so too has the search for measures of PA with high levels of methodological...
Supporting behaviour change in sedentary adults via real-time multidimensional physical activity feedback
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Increasing physical activity (PA) behaviour remains a public health priority and wearable technology is increasingly being used to support behaviour change efforts. Using wearables to capture and provide...
Increasing physical activity (PA) behaviour remains a public health priority and wearable technology is increasingly being used to support behaviour change efforts. Using wearables to capture and provide...
Physical Education Classes, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behavior in Children
Diego Augusto Santos Silva, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Peter T Katzmarzyk, Mikael Fogelholm, Gang Hu, Carol Maher, Timothy Olds, Vincent Onywera, Olga L Sarmiento, Martyn Standage, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Mark S Tremblay
May 01, 2018
Purpose This study aimed to examine the associations between participation frequency in physical education (PE) classes and objective measures of physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) in children from 12...
Physical Activity, Sedentary Time, and Fatness in a Biethnic Sample of Young Children.
PURPOSE: To investigate associations of objectively-measured physical activity (PA) and sedentary time (ST) with adiposity in a predominantly bi-ethnic (South Asian and White British) sample of young children. METHODS: The...
The development of the Comprehensive Analysis of Policy on Physical Activity (CAPPA) framework
Bojana Klepac Pogrmilovic, Grant O’Sullivan, Karen Milton, Stuart J. H. Biddle, Adrian Bauman, William Bellew, Nick Cavill, Sonja Kahlmeier, Michael P. Kelly, Nanette Mutrie, Michael Pratt, Harry Rutter, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Catherine Woods, Zeljko Pedisic
Aug 01, 2020
Abstract: Background: Policy analysis is considered essential for achieving successful reforms in health promotion and public health. The only framework for physical activity (PA) policy analysis was developed at a time when the...
Toward whole-of-system action to promote physical activity
Tracey Nau, Karen C. Lee, Benjamin Smith, William Bellew, Lindsey Reece, Peter Gelius, Harald Rutter, Adrian Bauman
Nov 30, 2019
Background: The value of a systems thinking approach to tackling population physical inactivity is increasingly recognized. This study used conceptual systems thinking to develop a cognitive map for physical activity (PA)...
Urban Foraging Social Meetups in Philadelphia, PA
Kristin G. McGillis
Jan 01, 0001
Urban foraging is the practice in which city residents gather plants and plant parts from green spaces--such as parks, sidewalks, or yards--to use for a variety of reasons. Research on the practice is in its early stages, with...
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Published by: Ursinus College
Metabolomics, physical activity, exercise and health
Physical activity (PA) and exercise are among the most important determinants of health. However, PA is a complex and heterogeneous behavior and the biological mechanisms through which it impacts individuals and populations in...
The Effects of Physical Activity Classes on Stress in College Students
Background: While stress is unavoidable, many college students face overwhelming levels of stress and lack proper stress management skills. Increased levels of stress can lead to poor mental and physical health as well as poor...
Published by: Winthrop University
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