• Relative Body Weight and Standardised Brightness-Mode Ultrasound Measurement of Subcutaneous Fat in Athletes: An International Multicentre Reliability Study, Under the Auspices of the IOC Medical Commission 

      Müller, Wolfram; Fürhapter-Rieger, Alfred; Ahammer, Helmut; Lohman, Timothy G.; Meyer, Nanna L.; Sardinha, Luís B.; Stewart, Arthur D.; Maughan, Ronald J.; Sundgot-Borgen, Jorunn; Müller, Tom; Harris, Margaret; Kirihennedige, Nuwanee; Magalhães, João P.; Melo, Xavier; Pirstinger, Wolfram; Reguant-Closa, Alba; Risoul-Salas, Vanessa; Ackland, Timothy R. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Introduction: Fat is a metabolic fuel, but excess body fat is ballast mass, and therefore, many elite athletes reduce body fat to dangerously low levels. Uncompressed subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT) thickness measured ...
    • Rising rural body-mass index is the main driver of the global obesity epidemic in adults 

      Bixby, Honor; Bentham, James; Zhou, Bin; Di Cesare, Mariachiara; Paciorek, Christopher J.; Bennett, James E.; Taddei, Cristina; Stevens, Gretchen A.; Rodriguez-Martinez, Andrea; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; Andersen, Lars Bo; Anderssen, Sigmund Alfred; Ekelund, Ulf; Kolle, Elin; Steene-Johannessen, Jostein; Tarp, Jakob; Ariansen, Inger; Biehl, Anna Månsson; Graff-Iversen, Sidsel; Meisfjord, Jørgen Rajan; Bjertness, Espen; Bjertness, Marius Bergsmark; Meyer, Haakon E.; Haugsgjerd, Teresa Risan; Tell, Grethe S.; Janszky, Imre; Krokstad, Steinar; Laugsand, Lars Erik; Sen, Abhijit; Vatten, Lars Johan; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Wilsgaard, Tom; Khang, Young-Ho; Soric, Maroje; Gregg, Edward W.; Miranda, J. Jaime; Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.; Savin, Stefan; Sophiea, Marisa K.; Iurilli, Maria L. C.; Solomon, Bethlehem D.; Cowan, Melanie J.; Riley, Leanne M.; Danaei, Goodarz; Bovet, Pascal; Chirita-Emandi, Adela; Hambleton, Ian R; Hayes, Alison J; Ikeda, Nayu; Kengne, Andre P.; Laxmaiah, Avula (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Body-mass index (BMI) has increased steadily in most countries in parallel with a rise in the proportion of the population who live in cities1,2. This has led to a widely reported view that urbanization is one of the most ...
    • Self-reported sports injuries and later-life health status in 3357 retired Olympians from 131 countries: A cross-sectional survey among those competing in the games between London 1948 and PyeongChang 2018 

      Palmer, Debbie; Cooper, Dale J.; Emery, Carolyn; Batt, Mark E.; Engebretsen, Lars; Scammell, Brigitte E.; Schamasch, Patrick; Shroff, Malav; Soligard, Torbjørn; Steffen, Kathrin; Whittaker, Jackie L.; Budgett, Richard (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Objective: Describe the self-reported prevalence and nature of Olympic-career injury and general health and current residual symptoms in a self-selected sample of retired Olympians. Methods: 3357 retired Olympians from ...
    • Serum HDL cholesterol was positively associated with cheese intake in the Oslo Health Study 

      Høstmark, Arne Torbjørn; Haug, Anna; Tomten, Sissel Erland; Thelle, Dag S.; Mosdøl, Annhild (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2009-02-19)
      We have examined the association between cheese intake and serum lipids in the cross-sectional Oslo Health Study (18,770 subjects), using ANOVA and linear regression. In both sexes and in most of four age groups, i.e., ...
    • Sport, health and drugs : a critical re-examination of some key issues and problems 

      Hanstad, Dag Vidar; Waddington, Ivan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009-07)
      One of the major justifications for the ban on the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sport has been that relating to the protection of the health of athletes. This paper subjects this argument to critical analysis by ...
    • Teaching health in physical education: An action research project 

      Mong, Hanne Herigstad; Standal, Øyvind Førland (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      In the Norwegian curriculum for physical education (PE), health is one of several topics students should learn about. However, the way in which many educators conceptualize health can impact both what students learn and ...
    • The Training of Olympic Alpine Ski Racers 

      Gilgien, Matthias; Reid, Robert Cortas; Raschner, Christian; Supej, Matej; Holmberg, Hans-Christer (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Alpine combined was the only alpine ski racing event at the first Winter Olympic Games in 1936, but since then, slalom, giant slalom, super-G, downhill, and team events have also become Olympic events. Substantial improvements ...
    • The Youth Olympic Games and a new awakening for sports and exercise medicine 

      Steffen, Kathrin; Engebretsen, Lars (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)