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Physical activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities: Evidence report of independent panel to assess the role of physical activity in the treatment of obesity and its comorbidities

Scott M. Grundy, +5 more
- 01 Nov 1999 - 
- Vol. 31, Iss: 11, pp 1493-1500
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The role of physical activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities and the AHA/ACC scientific statement on assessment of cardiovascular risk by use of multiple-risk-factor assessment equations are reviewed.
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1. Physical activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities. PMID: 10593519 [PubMed-indexed for MEDLINE]Related citations 2. Physical activity in the prevention and treatment of obesity and its comorbidities: evidence report of independent panel to assess the role of physical activity in the treatment of obesity and its comorbidities. 3. AHA/ACC scientific statement: Assessment of cardiovascular risk by use of multiple-risk-factor assessment equations: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. [PubMed-indexed for MEDLINE]Related citations 4. Assessment of cardiovascular risk by use of multiple-risk-factor assessment equations: a statement for healthcare professionals from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology.

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Consensus statement : Childhood obesity

Phyllis W. Speiser, +21 more
- 19 Dec 2005 - 
TL;DR: In developing a consensus statement, this international group has presented the evidence, developed recommendations, and provided a platform aimed toward future corrective action and ongoing debate in the international community.
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Physical Activity and Health in Europe: Evidence for Action

Nick Cavill, +2 more
TL;DR: The following countries and regions are represented in the European Union: Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Montenegro, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, and Uzbekistan.
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Childhood obesity: towards effectiveness

Elza Daniel de Mello, +2 more
- 01 May 2004 - 
TL;DR: While a number of different Brazilian prevalence studies were found, few gave details of the results of educational programs in the authors' country and Childhood obesity must be prevented through prescriptive diets from birth throughout childhood.
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Free-living activity energy expenditure in women successful and unsuccessful at maintaining a normal body weight

Roland L. Weinsier, +5 more
- 01 Mar 2002 - 
TL;DR: The general US population should increase their daily physical activity levels to decrease the rising prevalence of obesity.
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Links between physical fitness and cardiovascular reactivity and recovery to psychological stressors: A meta-analysis.

Kathleen Forcier, +6 more
- 01 Nov 2006 - 
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of published studies with adult human participants was conducted to evaluate whether physical fitness attenuates cardiovascular reactivity and improves recovery from acute psychological stressors, suggesting that fitness may be an important confound in studies of stress reactivity.
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Overweight and obesity in the United States: prevalence and trends, 1960–1994

Katherine M. Flegal, +3 more
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TL;DR: Between 1976–80 and 1988–94, the prevalence of obesity (BMI≥30.0) increased markedly in the US, in agreement with trends seen elsewhere in the world.
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Measurement of intracellular triglyceride stores by 1H spectroscopy: Validation in vivo

Lidia S. Szczepaniak, +7 more
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TL;DR: This study demonstrates for the first time that noninvasive in vivo 1H MRS measurement of intracellular TG, including that within myocytes, is feasible at 1.5-T field strengths and is comparable in accuracy to biochemical measurement.
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Adipose tissue distribution pattern in patients with familial partial lipodystrophy (Dunnigan variety).

Abhimanyu Garg, +2 more
- 01 Jan 1999 - 
TL;DR: Familial partial lipodystrophy results in a characteristic absence of sc fat from the extremities, with preservation of intermuscular fat stores, which is similar in the male and females.
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A gene for congenital generalized lipodystrophy maps to human chromosome 9q34.

Abhimanyu Garg, +11 more
- 01 Sep 1999 - 
TL;DR: A semi-automated genome-wide scan with a set of highly polymorphic short tandem repeats was carried out and identified a locus for CGL to chromosome 9q34 that harbors a plausible candidate gene encoding the retinoid X receptor alpha (RXRA) that plays a central role in adipocyte differentiation.
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Lori Mosca, +11 more
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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, +19 more
- 01 Feb 1995 - 

Physical Activity And Health: A Report Of The Surgeon General

Audrey F. Manley

Clinical guidelines on the identification, evaluation, and treatment of overweight and obesity in adults : the evidence report

Lung
- 01 Jan 1998 - 

Physical Activity and Public Health Updated Recommendation for Adults From the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Heart Association

William L. Haskell, +9 more
- 28 Aug 2007 - 

Compendium of physical activities: an update of activity codes and MET intensities.

Barbara E. Ainsworth, +11 more
- 30 Aug 2000 -