Global physical activity levels - Need for intervention
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Global physical activity levels: surveillance progress, pitfalls, and prospects.
To implement effective non-communicable disease prevention programmes, policy makers need data for physical activity levels and trends. In this report, we describe physical activity levels worldwide with data for adults (15 years or older) from 122 countries and for adolescents (13-15-years-old) from 105 countries. Worldwide, 31·1% (95% CI 30·9-31·2) of adults are physically inactive, with prop...
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متن کاملAn internet-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention has short term positive effects on physical activity levels among adolescents.
Question: Does an internet-based computer-tailored physical activity intervention improve physical activity levels in adolescents? Design: A cluster randomised, controlled trial. Setting: 49 schools with 82 different classes in Austria, Belgium, Crete, Germany, Greece, and Sweden. Participants: Adolescents attending school. Classes were randomised resulting in 581 adolescents allocated to recei...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
سال: 2019
ISSN: 0033-0620
DOI: 10.1016/j.pcad.2019.02.004