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Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia

Researcher at Queen's University Belfast

Publications -  105
Citations -  4995

Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia is an academic researcher from Queen's University Belfast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 21, co-authored 87 publications receiving 1690 citations. Previous affiliations of Leandro Martin Totaro Garcia include Federal University of São Paulo & Oswaldo Cruz Foundation.

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World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

TL;DR: New WHO 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour reaffirm messages that some physical activity is better than none, that more physical Activity is better for optimal health outcomes and provide a new recommendation on reducing sedentary behaviours.
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All-Cause Mortality Attributable to Sitting Time: Analysis of 54 Countries Worldwide.

TL;DR: Assuming that the effect of sitting time on all-cause mortality risk is independent of physical activity, reducing sitting time plays an important role in active lifestyle promotion, which is an important aspect of premature mortality prevention worldwide.
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Advancing the global physical activity agenda: recommendations for future research by the 2020 WHO physical activity and sedentary behavior guidelines development group

TL;DR: The 2020 WHO Guidelines for Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior were informed by the most up-to-date research on the health effects of physical activity and sedentary time and acknowledge the need to conduct more population-based studies in low- and middle-income countries and in people living with disabilities and/or chronic disease.
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Effect of COVID-19 response policies on walking behavior in US cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrated mobility data from mobile devices and area-level data to study the walking patterns of 1.62 million anonymous users in 10 metropolitan areas in the United States.