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Charles E. Matthews

Researcher at National Institutes of Health

Publications -  305
Citations -  37353

Charles E. Matthews is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Body mass index. The author has an hindex of 78, co-authored 281 publications receiving 31355 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles E. Matthews include Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust & Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

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Amount of Time Spent in Sedentary Behaviors in the United States, 2003–2004

Charles E. Matthews, +6 more
- 01 Apr 2008 - 
TL;DR: The authors evaluate participants from the 2003-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey aged >/=6 years who wore an activity monitor for up to 7 days to provide the first objective measure of the amount of time spent in sedentary behavior in the US population.
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American College of Sports Medicine roundtable on exercise guidelines for cancer survivors.

Kathryn H. Schmitz, +12 more
- 01 Jul 2010 - 
TL;DR: The roundtable concluded that exercise training is safe during and after cancer treatments and results in improvements in physical functioning, quality of life, and cancer-related fatigue in several cancer survivor groups, sufficient for the recommendation that cancer survivors follow the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.
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Too Much Sitting: The Population Health Science of Sedentary Behavior

Neville Owen, +3 more
- 01 Jul 2010 - 
TL;DR: Sitting time, TV time, and time sitting in automobiles increase premature mortality risk, and breaking up sedentary time is beneficial.
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American College of Sports Medicine Roundtable on Exercise Guidelines for Cancer Survivors: Corrigendum

Kathryn H. Schmitz, +2 more
- 01 Jan 2011 - 
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Sedentary time and cardio-metabolic biomarkers in US adults: NHANES 2003–06

Genevieve N. Healy, +6 more
- 01 Mar 2011 - 
TL;DR: These are the first population-representative findings on the deleterious associations of prolonged sedentary time with cardio-metabolic and inflammatory biomarkers and suggest that clinical communications and preventive health messages on reducing and breaking up sedentaryTime may be beneficial for cardiovascular disease risk.