Epidemiologic Methods in Physical Activity Studies
Published on 29. September 2008
341 pages
978-0-19-972034-7 (ISBN)
Description
Physical activity clearly is associated with decreased risk of many chronic diseases, as well as with longer life. Utilizing modern epidemiologic methods, studies of physical activity and health have been conducted since the 1940s. However physical inactivity did not gain widespread acknowledgement as a major risk factor for poor health until 1992, when the American Heart Association recognized it as a risk factor for heart disease, on par with risk factors such as smoking.
This text includes chapters describing the associations between physical activity and major diseases. With a major emphasis on the methods underpinning studies that can be conducted to elucidate these associations, this book is an important guide for those performing the informative epidemiologic studies needed to reduce the increasing number of people diagnosed with chronic disease due to inactivity.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Contributors
- 1 Physical Activity Versus Heart Attack: A Modern Epidemic-Personal Observations
- I: Epidemiologic Methods
- 2 Measurement of Physical Activity and Inactivity in Epidemiologic Studies
- 3 Establishing Validity and Reliability of Physical Activity Assessment Instruments
- 4 Current Issues in Examining Dose-Response Relationships Between Physical Activity and Health Outcomes
- 5 Individual Responses to Physical Activity: The Role of Genetics
- 6 Design of Present-Day Epidemiologic Studies of Physical Activity and Health
- 7 Physical Activity Surveillance
- II: Epidemiologic Data
- 8 Physical Activity, Fitness, and Delayed Mortality
- 9 Physical Activity, Fitness, and the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
- 10 Physical Activity and Cancer: The Evidence, the Issues, and the Challenges
- 11 Physical Activity, Fitness, and the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes
- 12 Physical Activity and Weight Control
- 13 Risk of Acute Cardiac Events With Physical Activity
- 14 Physical Activity, Fitness, and Musculoskeletal Injury
- III: Promoting Physical Activity
- 15 Evolution of Physical Activity Recommendations
- 16 How Can We Increase Physical Activity Levels?
- Index
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