Ulf Ekelund

TL;DR: Diagnosis for MetS in youth can be improved by using continuous variables for risk factors and by including CRF and leptin, which better describes metabolic dysfunction in children.

TL;DR: In this article, the validity of the Recent Physical Activity Questionnaire (RPAQ) was examined for assessing physical activity in four domains (leisure, work, commuting, home) during past month.

TL;DR: Physical activity promotion programs in urban China should target older people, obese individuals, and cigarette smokers, as these population subgroups exhibited low levels of physical activity.

TL;DR: Physical activity was associated with reduced postmenopausal breast cancer risk, particular to ER-negative tumors and the inverse relation with physical activity was also more pronounced among women who had never used menopausal hormone therapy and those with a positive family history of breast cancer than their respective counterparts.

TL;DR: The global repositioning of lipid-related risk, with non-optimal cholesterol shifting from a distinct feature of high-income countries in northwestern Europe, north America and Australasia to one that affects countries in east and southeast Asia and Oceania should motivate the use of population-based policies and personal interventions to improve nutrition and enhance access to treatment throughout the world.