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Ulf Ekelund

Researcher at Norwegian School of Sport Sciences

Publications -  661
Citations -  88198

Ulf Ekelund is an academic researcher from Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 115, co-authored 611 publications receiving 70618 citations. Previous affiliations of Ulf Ekelund include Norwegian Institute of Public Health & Lund University.

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Evaluation of raw acceleration sedentary thresholds in children and adults.

Maria Hildebrand, +3 more
- 01 Dec 2017 - 
TL;DR: Wrist thresholds appear to perform better than hip thresholds for estimating free‐living sedentary time in children and adults relative to activPAL, however, specificity for all the developed thresholds are low.
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Ethnic and gender differences in physical activity levels among 9-10-year-old children of white European, South Asian and African-Caribbean origin: the Child Heart Health Study in England (CHASE Study).

Christopher G. Owen, +5 more
- 01 Aug 2009 - 
TL;DR: British South Asian children have lower objectively measured physical activity levels than European whites and black African-Caribbeans.
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Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries and territories: a pooled analysis of 2181 population-based studies with 65 million participants

Andrea Rodriguez-Martinez, +1361 more
- 07 Nov 2020 - 
TL;DR: Girls in South Korea, Vietnam, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and some central Asian countries and boys in central and western Europe had the healthiest changes in anthropometric status over the past 3·5 decades because, compared with children and adolescents in other countries, they had a much larger gain in height than they did in BMI.
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Aerobic fitness and its relationship to sport, exercise training and habitual physical activity during youth

Neil Armstrong, +2 more
- 01 Sep 2011 - 
TL;DR: There is no compelling evidence to suggest that young people have low levels of peak VO2 or that it is declining over time, and during youth the responses of the components of aerobic fitness vary in relation to age, maturation and sex.
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Physical activity attenuates the body mass index–increasing influence of genetic variation in the FTO gene

Karani Santhanakrishnan Vimaleswaran, +8 more
- 01 Aug 2009 - 
TL;DR: PA attenuates the effect of the FTO rs1121980 genotype on BMI and WC, showing that a genetic susceptibility to obesity induced by FTO variation can be overcome, at least in part, by adopting a physically active lifestyle.