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Michael Pratt
Researcher at University of California, San Diego
Publications - 236
Citations - 44081
Michael Pratt is an academic researcher from University of California, San Diego. The author has contributed to research in topics: Public health & Population. The author has an hindex of 57, co-authored 224 publications receiving 36014 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael Pratt include University of South Carolina & Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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International physical activity questionnaire: 12-country reliability and validity
Cora L Craig,Alison L. Marshall,Michael Sjöström,Adrian Bauman,Michael L. Booth,Barbara E. Ainsworth,Michael Pratt,Ulf Ekelund,Agneta Yngve,James F. Sallis,Pekka Oja +10 more
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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Physical Activity and Public Health: A Recommendation From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American College of Sports Medicine
Russell R. Pate,Michael Pratt,Steven N. Blair,William L. Haskell,Caroline A. Macera,Claude Bouchard,David Buchner,Walter H. Ettinger,Gregory W. Heath,Abby C. King,Andrea M. Kriska,Arther S. Leon,Bess H. Marcus,Jeremy N. Morris,Ralph S. Paffenbarger,Kevin Patrick,Michael L. Pollock,James Rippe,James F. Sallis,Jack H. Wilmore +19 more
TL;DR: Every US adult should accumulate 30 minutes or more of moderate-intensity physical activity on most, preferably all, days of the week.
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Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019: Update From the GBD 2019 Study
Gregory A. Roth,George A. Mensah,Catherine O. Johnson,Giovanni Addolorato,Enrico Ammirati,Larry M. Baddour,Noël C. Barengo,Andrea Beaton,Emelia J. Benjamin,Catherine P. Benziger,Aimé Bonny,Michael Brauer,Marianne Brodmann,Thomas J. Cahill,Jonathan R. Carapetis,Alberico L. Catapano,Sumeet S. Chugh,Leslie T. Cooper,Josef Coresh,Michael H. Criqui,Nicole K. DeCleene,Kim A. Eagle,Sophia Emmons-Bell,Valery L. Feigin,Joaquim Fernández-Solà,F. Gerry R. Fowkes,Emmanuela Gakidou,Scott M. Grundy,Feng J. He,George Howard,Frank B. Hu,Lesley A. Inker,Ganesan Karthikeyan,Nicholas J Kassebaum,Walter Koroshetz,Carl J. Lavie,Donald M. Lloyd-Jones,Hong Lu,Antonio Mirijello,Awoke Misganaw Temesgen,Ali H. Mokdad,Andrew E. Moran,Paul Muntner,Jagat Narula,Bruce Neal,Mpiko Ntsekhe,Glaucia Moraes de Oliveira,Catherine M Otto,Mayowa O. Owolabi,Michael Pratt,Sanjay Rajagopalan,Marissa B Reitsma,Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro,Nancy A. Rigotti,Anthony Rodgers,Craig Sable,Saate S Shakil,Karen Sliwa-Hahnle,Benjamin A Stark,Johan Sundström,Patrick Timpel,Imad I. Tleyjeh,Marco Valgimigli,Theo Vos,Paul K. Whelton,Magdi H. Yacoub,Liesl Zühlke,Christopher J L Murray,Valentin Fuster +68 more
TL;DR: CVD burden continues its decades-long rise for almost all countries outside high-income countries, and alarmingly, the age-standardized rate of CVD has begun to rise in some locations where it was previously declining in high- income countries.
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Relationship of Physical Activity and Television Watching With Body Weight and Level of Fatness Among Children Results From the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Ross E. Andersen,Carlos J. Crespo,Carlos J. Crespo,Susan J. Bartlett,Lawrence J. Cheskin,Michael Pratt +5 more
TL;DR: Many US children watch a great deal of television and are inadequately vigorously active, andVigorous activity levels are lowest among girls, non-Hispanic blacks, and Mexican Americans.
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The economic burden of physical inactivity : a global analysis of major non-communicable diseases
Ding Ding,Ding Ding,Kenny D Lawson,Kenny D Lawson,Tracy Kolbe-Alexander,Tracy Kolbe-Alexander,Eric A. Finkelstein,Peter T. Katzmarzyk,Willem van Mechelen,Michael Pratt +9 more
TL;DR: This paper provides further justification to prioritise promotion of regular physical activity worldwide as part of a comprehensive strategy to reduce non-communicable diseases.