• Daily steps and all-cause mortality: A meta-analysis of 15 international cohorts 

      Ekelund, Ulf; Lee, I-Min; Rees-Punia, Erika; Dallmeier, Dhayana; Klenk, Jochen; Carnethon, Mercedes R.; Evenson, Kelly R.; Galuska, Deborah A.; Jefferis, Barbara J.; Kraus, William E.; Matthews, Charles E.; Omura, John D.; Patel, Alpa V.; Pieper, Carl F.; Whincup, Peter H.; Dooley, Erin E.; Fulton, Janet E.; Paluch, Amanda E.; Bajpai, Shivangi; Bassett, David R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Background: Although 10 000 steps per day is widely promoted to have health benefits, there is little evidence to support this recommendation. We aimed to determine the association between number of steps per day and ...
    • Device-measured physical activity and cardiometabolic health: The Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (ProPASS) consortium 

      Blodgett, Joanna M.; Ahmadi, Matthew N.; Atkin, Andrew J.; Chastin, Sebastian; Chan, Hsiu-Wen; Suorsa, Kristin; Bakker, Esmée A.; Hettiarcachchi, Pasan; Johansson, Peter J.; Sherar, Lauren B.; Rangul, Vegar; Pulsford, Richard M.; Mishra, Gita; Eijsvogels, Thijs M. H.; Stenholm, Sari; Hughes, Alun D.; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando M.; Ekelund, Ulf; Lee, I-Min; Hamer, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background and Aims: Physical inactivity, sedentary behaviour (SB), and inadequate sleep are key behavioural risk factors of cardiometabolic diseases. Each behaviour is mainly considered in isolation, despite clear behavioural ...
    • Does physical activity attenuate, or even eliminate, the detrimental association of sitting time with mortality? A harmonised meta-analysis of data from more than 1 million men and women 

      Ekelund, Ulf; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Brown, Wendy J.; Fagerland, Morten Wang; Owen, Neville; Powell, Kenneth E.; Bauman, Adrian; Lee, I-Min (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-09)
      Background: High amounts of sedentary behaviour have been associated with increased risks of several chronic conditions and mortality. However, it is unclear whether physical activity attenuates or even eliminates the ...
    • Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis 

      Ekelund, Ulf; Tarp, Jakob; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Hansen, Bjørge Herman; Jefferis, Barbara; Fagerland, Morten; Whincup, Peter; Diaz, Keith M.; Hooker, Steven P.; Chernofsky, Ariel; Larson, Martin G.; Spartano, Nicole; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Dohrn, Ing-Mari; Hagströmer, Maria; Edwardson, Charlotte; Yates, Thomas; Shiroma, Eric; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Lee, I-Min (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Objective: To examine the dose-response associations between accelerometer assessed total physical activity, different intensities of physical activity, and sedentary time and all cause mortality. Design: Systematic ...
    • Is the time right for quantitative public health guidelines on sitting? A narrative review of sedentary behaviour research paradigms and findings 

      Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Ekelund, Ulf; Ding, Ding; Hamer, Mark; Bauman, Adrian; Lee, I-Min (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Sedentary behaviour (SB) has been proposed as an ‘independent’ risk factor for chronic disease risk, attracting much research and media attention. Many countries have included generic, non-quantitative reductions in SB in ...
    • Joint associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality: A harmonised meta-analysis in more than 44 000 middle-aged and older individuals 

      Ekelund, Ulf; Tarp, Jakob; Fagerland, Morten Wang; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Hansen, Bjørge Herman; Jefferis, Barbara; Whincup, Peter H.; Diaz, Keith M.; Hooker, Steven; Howard, Virginia J.; Chernofsky, Ariel; Larson, Martin G.; Spartano, Nicole; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Dohrn, Ing-Mari; Hagströmer, Maria; Edwardson, Charlotte; Yates, Thomas; Shiroma, Eric; Dempsey, Paddy; Wijndaele, Katrien; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Lee, I-Min (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Objectives: To examine the joint associations of accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality. Methods: We conducted a harmonised meta-analysis including nine prospective cohort ...
    • Long-term leisure-time physical activity and risk of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: Dose-response associations in a prospective cohort study of 210 327 Taiwanese adults 

      Martinez-Gomez, David; Cabanas-Sanchez, Veronica; Yu, Tsung; Rodriguez-Artalejo, Fernando; Ding, Ding; Lee, I-Min; Ekelund, Ulf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objectives: We aimed to investigate the dose–response associations of long-term leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) obtained from repeated measures with all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality outcomes in ...
    • Physical activity, diet quality and all-cause cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality: A prospective study of 346 627 UK Biobank participants 

      Ding, Ding; Van Buskirk, Joe; Nguyen, Binh; Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Elbarbary, Mona; Veronese, Nicola; Clare, Philip J.; Lee, I-Min; Ekelund, Ulf; Fontana, Luigi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Objectives: To examine independent and interactive associations of physical activity and diet with all-cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD) and physical activity, diet and adiposity-related (PDAR) cancer mortality. Methods: ...
    • Prospective Association of Daily Steps with Cardiovascular Disease: A Harmonized Meta-Analysis 

      Paluch, Amanda E.; Bajpai, Shivangi; Ballin, Marcel; Bassett, David R.; Buford, Thomas W.; Carnethon, Mercedes R.; Chernofsky, Ariel; Dooley, Erin E.; Ekelund, Ulf; Evenson, Kelly R.; Galuska, Deborah A.; Jefferis, Barbara J.; Kong, Lingsong; Kraus, William E.; Larson, Martin G.; Lee, I-Min; Matthews, Charles E.; Newton, Robert L.; Nordström, Anna Hava; Nordström, Peter; Palta, Priya; Patel, Alpa V.; Pettee Gabriel, Kelley; Pieper, Carl F.; Pompeii, Lisa; Rees-Punia, Erika; Spartano, Nicole L.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Whincup, Peter H.; Yang, Shengping; Fulton, Janet E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: Taking fewer than the widely promoted “10 000 steps per day” has recently been associated with lower risk of all-cause mortality. The relationship of steps and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk remains poorly ...
    • Status and Trends of Physical Activity Surveillance, Policy, and Research in 164 Countries: Findings From the Global Observatory for Physical Activity—GoPA! 2015 and 2020 Surveys 

      Varela, Andrea Ramirez; Hallal, Pedro C.; Grueso, Juliana Mejía; Pedišić, Željko; Salvo, Deborah; Nguyen, Anita; Klepac, Bojana; Bauman, Adrian; Siefken, Katja; Hinckson, Erica; Oyeyemi, Adewale L.; Richards, Justin; Khidir, Elena Daniela Salih; Inoue, Shigeru; Amagasa, Shiho; Jauregui, Alejandra; da Silva, Marcelo Cozzensa; Lee, I-Min; Ding, Melody; Kohl, Harold W.; Ekelund, Ulf; Heath, Gregory W.; Powell, Kenneth E.; Foster, Charlie; Memon, Aamir Raoof; Doumbia, Abdoulaye; Rather, Abdul Roof; Razzaque, Abdur; Diouf, Adama; Hino, Adriano Akira; Damasceno, Albertino; Abebe, Alem Deksisa; Florindo, Alex Antonio; Mannocci, Alice; Aringazina, Altyn; Jurican, Andrea Backović; Poffet, Andrea; Decelis, Andrew; Carlin, Angela; Enescu, Angelica; Avilés, Angélica María Ochoa; Kontsevaya, Anna; Somhegyi, Annamaria; Vuillemin, Anne; El Hamdouchi, Asmaa; Théodore, Asse Amangoua; Masanovic, Bojan; Lynch, Brigid M.; Medina, Catalina; del Campo, Cecilia; Abdeta, Chalchisa; Moreways, Changa; Ranasinghe, Chathuranga; Howitt, Christina; Cameron, Christine; Jurakić, Danijel; Martinez-Gomez, David; Tladi, Dawn; Diro, Debrework Tesfaye; Adlakha, Deepti; Mitić, Dušan; Bjelica, Duško; Biernat, Elżbieta; Chisati, Enock M.; Lambert, Estelle Victoria; Cerin, Ester; Lee, Eun-Young; Riso, Eva-Maria; Villalba, Felicia Canete; Assah, Felix; Lovrić, Franjo; Araya-Vargas, Gerardo A.; La Torre, Giuseppe; Cruz, Gloria Isabel Nino; Baltaci, Gul; Al Sabbah, Haleama; Nalecz, Hanna; Nashandi, Hilde Liisa; Park, Hyuntae; Revuelta-Sánchez, Inés; Nusurupia, Jackline Jema; Zamora, Jaime Leppe; Kopcakova, Jaroslava; Brazo-Sayavera, Javier; Oppert, Jean-Michel; Nie, Jinlei; Spence, John C.; Bradley, John Stewart; Mota, Jorge; Mitáš, Josef; Chen, Junshi; Hylton, Kamilah S.; Fromel, Karel; Milton, Karen; Borodulin, Katja; Moustapha, Keita Amadou; Martinez-Folgar, Kevin; Nasreddine, Lara; Christiansen, Lars Breum; Malisoux, Laurent; Malete, Leapetswe; Grepo-Jalao, Lorelie C.; Monteiro, Luciana Zaranza; Al Subhi, Lyutha K.; Dakskobler, Maja; Alnaji, Majed; Garro, Margarita Claramunt; Hagströmer, Maria; Murphy, Marie H.; McLaughlin, Matthew; Rivera-Morales, Mercedes; Scheinowitz, Mickey; Shkodra, Mimoza; Piatkowska, Monika; Chaudhury, Moushumi; Alrashdi, Naif Ziyad; Mutrie, Nanette; Murphy, Niamh; Ahmad, Norhayati Haji; Obeidat, Nour A.; Gómez, Nubia Yaneth Ruiz; Liangruenrom, Nucharapon; Arnesto, Oscar Díaz; Flores-Flores, Oscar; Incarbone, Oscar; Chimeddamba, Oyun; Bovet, Pascal; Magalhães, Pedro; Jousilahti, Pekka; Katewongsa, Piyawat; Gómez, Rafael Alexander Leandro; Shihab, Rawan Awni; Ocansey, Reginald; Veress, Réka; Marine, Richard; Carrizales-Ramos, Rolando; Saeed, Saad Younis; El-Ashker, Said; Green, Samuel; Kasoma, Sandra; Beretervide, Santiago; Baldew, Se-Sergio; Nichols, Selby; Khoo, Selina; Hosseini, Seyed Ali; Goenka, Shifalika; Gholamalishahi, Shima; Kosen, Soewarta; Compernolle, Sofie; Enescu, Stefan Paul; Popovic, Stevo; Paudel, Susan; Andrade, Susana; Titze, Sylvia; Davidson, Tamu; Dusingizimana, Theogene; Dorner, Thomas E.; Kolbe-Alexander, Tracy L.; Huong, Tran Thanh; Sychareun, Vanphanom; Jarevska-Simovska, Vera; Puloka, Viliami Kulikefu; Onywera, Vincent; Wendel-Vos, Wanda; Dionyssiotis, Yannis; Pratt, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Background: Physical activity (PA) surveillance, policy, and research efforts need to be periodically appraised to gain insight into national and global capacities for PA promotion. The aim of this paper was to assess the ...
    • Systematic review of the prospective association of daily step counts with risk of mortality, cardiovascular disease, and dysglycemia 

      Hall, Katherine S.; Hyde, Eric T.; Bassett, David R.; Carlson, Susan A.; Carnethon, Mercedes; Ekelund, Ulf; Evenson, Kelly R.; Galuska, Deborah A.; Kraus, William E.; Lee, I-Min; Matthews, Charles E.; Omura, John D.; Paluch, Amanda E.; Thomas, William; Fulton, Janet E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background: Daily step counts is an intuitive metric that has demonstrated success in motivating physical activity in adults and may hold potential for future public health physical activity recommendations. This review ...
    • Towards better evidence-informed global action: Lessons learnt from the Lancet series and recent developments in physical activity and public health 

      Ding, Ding; Ramirez Varela, Andrea; Bauman, Adrian E.; Ekelund, Ulf; Lee, I-Min; Heath, Gregory; Katzmarzyk, Peter T.; Reis, Rodrigo; Pratt, Michael (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      In the past few decades, the field of physical activity has grown and evolved in scope, depth, visibility and impact around the world. Global progress has been observed in research and practice in physical activity regarding ...
    • Vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity and cancer incidence among nonexercising adults: The UK Biobank accelerometry study 

      Stamatakis, Emmanuel; Ahmadi, Matthew N.; Friedenreich, Christine M.; Blodgett, Joanna M.; Koster, Annemarie; Holtermann, Andreas; Atkin, Andrew; Rangul, Vegar; Teixeira-Pinto, Armando; Ekelund, Ulf; Lee, I-Min; Sherar, Lauren B.; Hamer, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Importance: Vigorous physical activity (VPA) is a time-efficient way to achieve recommended physical activity (PA) for cancer prevention, although structured longer bouts of VPA (via traditional exercise) are unappealing ...