How well do cognitive and environmental variables predict active commuting?

How well do cognitive and environmental variables predict active commuting?

BACKGROUND In recent years, there has been growing interest in theoretical studies integrating cognitions and environmental variables in the prediction of behaviour related to the obesity epidemic. This is the approach adopted in the present study in reference to the theory of planned behaviour. More precisely, the aim of this study was to determine the contribution of cognitive and environment...

Active commuting: prevalence, barriers, and associated variables.

BACKGROUND Research has demonstrated that adolescents who actively commute have higher levels of physical activity (PA), which have declined precipitously over the past 30 years. The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of active commuting to school; and to identify barriers associated with active commuting. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted with 1672 students (46....

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How Well Do Current Cardiovascular Risk Factors Predict Risk?

Is There a Need for New Cardiovascular Biomarkers? Discovery of novel biomarkers and improvement of risk prediction algorithms will be a key to fulfill the promise of personalized medicine. Although genuine personalized treatment is probably an unrealistic expectation within the budget constraints of current health systems, a stratified medicine approach to identify individuals at high risk may...

Sociodemographic and environmental correlates of active commuting in rural America.

PURPOSE This research investigated participation rates in 3 modes of active commuting (AC) and their sociodemographic and physical environmental correlates in rural America. METHODS The 2000 Census supplemented with other data sets were used to analyze AC rates in percentage of workers walking, biking, and taking public transportation to work in 14,209 nonmetropolitan rural tracts identified ...