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Agneta Yngve

Researcher at Uppsala University

Publications -  221
Citations -  27288

Agneta Yngve is an academic researcher from Uppsala University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Health promotion. The author has an hindex of 47, co-authored 219 publications receiving 22497 citations. Previous affiliations of Agneta Yngve include Akershus University College & Karolinska Institutet.

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International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity

Cora L Craig, +10 more
- 01 Aug 2003 - 
TL;DR: Considering the diverse samples in this study, IPAQ has reasonable measurement properties for monitoring population levels of physical activity among 18- to 65-yr-old adults in diverse settings.
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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults

Leandra Abarca-Gómez, +1024 more
- 16 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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Physical activity assessed by activity monitor and doubly labeled water in children.

Ulf Ekelund, +7 more
- 01 Jan 2001 - 
TL;DR: Activity counts contributed significantly to the explained variation in TEE and was the best predictor of AEE.
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Fruit and Vegetable Intake in a Sample of 11-Year-Old Children in 9 European Countries: The Pro Children Cross-Sectional Survey

Agneta Yngve, +13 more
- 01 Jul 2005 - 
TL;DR: The fruit and vegetable intake in 11-year-old children was in all countries far from reaching population goals and food-based dietary guidelines on national and international levels.
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Assessing Physical Activity Among Children With Accelerometers Using Different Time Sampling Intervals and Placements

Andreas Nilsson, +3 more
- 01 Feb 2002 - 
TL;DR: The aim was to investigate the effect of five different time sampling intervals (epoch settings) on different intensity levels when assessing physical activity with an accelerometer (CSA, WAM 7 ...