Epidemiologic Methods in Physical Activity Studies

✍ Scribed by I-Min Lee

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Physical activity clearly is associated with decreased risk of many chronic diseases, as well as with longer life. Utilizing modern epidemiologic methods, studies of physical activity and health have been conducted since the 1940s. However physical inactivity did not gain widespread acknowledgement as a major risk factor for poor health until 1992, when the American Heart Association recognized it as a risk factor for heart disease, on par with risk factors such as smoking. This text includes chapters describing the associations between physical activity and major diseases. With a major emphasis on the methods underpinning studies that can be conducted to elucidate these associations, this book is an important guide for those performing the informative epidemiologic studies needed to reduce the increasing number of people diagnosed with chronic disease due to inactivity.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 10
Contributors......Page 12
1 Physical Activity Versus Heart Attack: A Modern Epidemic—Personal Observations......Page 16
I: Epidemiologic Methods......Page 26
2 Measurement of Physical Activity and Inactivity in Epidemiologic Studies......Page 28
3 Establishing Validity and Reliability of Physical Activity Assessment Instruments......Page 47
4 Current Issues in Examining Dose–Response Relationships Between Physical Activity and Health Outcomes......Page 69
5 Individual Responses to Physical Activity: The Role of Genetics......Page 90
6 Design of Present-Day Epidemiologic Studies of Physical Activity and Health......Page 113
7 Physical Activity Surveillance......Page 137
II: Epidemiologic Data......Page 150
8 Physical Activity, Fitness, and Delayed Mortality......Page 152
9 Physical Activity, Fitness, and the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease......Page 171
10 Physical Activity and Cancer: The Evidence, the Issues, and the Challenges......Page 191
11 Physical Activity, Fitness, and the Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes......Page 214
12 Physical Activity and Weight Control......Page 238
13 Risk of Acute Cardiac Events With Physical Activity......Page 259
14 Physical Activity, Fitness, and Musculoskeletal Injury......Page 276
III: Promoting Physical Activity......Page 294
15 Evolution of Physical Activity Recommendations......Page 296
16 How Can We Increase Physical Activity Levels?......Page 315
A......Page 330
C......Page 331
D......Page 333
H......Page 334
I......Page 335
M......Page 336
O......Page 337
P......Page 338
S......Page 339
V......Page 340
Z......Page 341