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Initial Validation of an Exercise “Vital Sign” in Electronic Medical Records

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Karen J. Coleman1, Eunis W. Ngor1, Kristi Reynolds1, Virginia P. Quinn1, Corinna Koebnick1, Deborah R. Young, Barbara Sternfeld1, Robert E. Sallis •
Kaiser Permanente1
01 Nov 2012-Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
TL;DR: The EVS has the potential to provide information about the relationship between exercise and health care use, cost, and chronic disease that has not been previously available at the population level and may provide more conservative estimates of PA behavior when compared with national surveys.
Abstract: PurposeThe objective of this study is to describe the face and discriminant validity of an exercise vital sign (EVS) for use in an outpatient electronic medical record.MethodsEligible patients were 1,793,385 adults 18 yr and older who were members of a large health care system in Southern Ca

269 citations

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Influence of Change in Aerobic Fitness and Weight on Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome

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Laura A. Crist1, Catherine M. Champagne2, Leonor Corsino3, Lillian F. Lien3, Guangyu Zhang4, Deborah R. Young •
University of Maryland, College Park1, Pennington Biomedical Research Center2, Duke University3, University of Maryland, Baltimore4
08 Mar 2012-Preventing Chronic Disease
TL;DR: Increased aerobic fitness may reduce prevalence of metabolic syndrome, and this association appears to be mediated through concomitant weight change.
Abstract: Introduction The metabolic syndrome is the clustering of several cardiometabolic risk factors that can lead to the development of coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes. We evaluated whether a change in aerobic fitness resulting from a lifestyle intervention could significantly change the odds of metabolic syndrome prevalence.

18 citations