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Albertine J. Schuit
Researcher at Tilburg University
Publications - 127
Citations - 7486
Albertine J. Schuit is an academic researcher from Tilburg University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Overweight. The author has an hindex of 41, co-authored 121 publications receiving 6638 citations. Previous affiliations of Albertine J. Schuit include Public Health Research Institute & Centre for Health Protection.
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Reproducibility and relative validity of the short questionnaire to assess health-enhancing physical activity
TL;DR: The SQUASH is a fairly reliable and reasonably valid questionnaire and may be used to order subjects according to their level of physical activity in an adult population and may proof to be a very useful tool for the evaluation of health enhancingPhysical activity in large populations.
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Physical activity and breast cancer: a systematic review.
Evelyn M. Monninkhof,Sjoerd G. Elias,F. A. Vlems,I. van der Tweel,Albertine J. Schuit,D.W. Voskuil,F. E. van Leeuwen +6 more
TL;DR: There is evidence for an inverse association between physical activity and breast cancer risk, and the evidence is stronger for postmenopausal breast cancer than for premenopausal Breast cancer.
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Physical activity and stroke. A meta-analysis of observational data
G.C.W. Wendel-Vos,Albertine J. Schuit,Edith J. M. Feskens,Hendriek C. Boshuizen,W.M.M. Verschuren,Wim H. M. Saris,Daan Kromhout +6 more
TL;DR: Meta-analysis of observational studies was used to quantify the relationship between physical activity and stroke and to explore sources of heterogeneity, finding lack of physical activity is a modifiable risk factor for both total stroke and stroke subtypes.
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Validity of the Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE): according to energy expenditure assessed by the doubly labeled water method.
TL;DR: The PASE proved to be a reasonable valid method to classify healthy elderly men and women into categories of physical activity and some possible refinements were suggested, which may improve the accuracy of the PASE questionnaire.
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Disagreement in physical activity assessed by accelerometer and self-report in subgroups of age, gender, education and weight status
Sander M Slootmaker,Albertine J. Schuit,M.J.M. Chinapaw,Jacob C. Seidell,Willem van Mechelen +4 more
TL;DR: Large differences in time spent on MPA and VPA measured by questionnaire and accelerometer in adolescents but reasonably good agreement in adults are observed.