Primary Care - References

Eakin, E. G., Brown, W. J., Marshall, A. L., Mummery, K. and Larsen, E. (2004). Physical activity promotion in primary care. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 27(4), 297-303.

Shephard, R. J. (2006). Nutrition and fitness. Parts 1 and 2. Obesity, the metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease and cancer; Mental health, aging, and the implementation of a healthy diet and physical activity lifestyle. Applied Physiology Nutrition and Metabolism, 31(3), 328.

Stewart, K. J., Ouyang, P., Bacher, A. C., Lima, S. & Shapiro, E. P. (2006). Exercise effects on cardiac size and left ventricular diastolic function: relationships to changes in fitness, fatness, blood pressure and insulin resistance. Heart, 92(7): 893-898.

Health care costs

Andreyeva, T. & Sturm, R. (2006).Physical activity and changes in health care costs in late middle age. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 3, Suppl. S6-S19.

Martinson, B., Crain, L., Pronk, N., O’Connar, P. and Maciosek, M. (2003). Changes in physical activity and short-term changes in health care charges: a prospective cohort study of older adults. Preventive Medicine, 37, 319-326.

Popkin, B. M., Kim, S., Rusev, E. R., Du, S. and Zizza, C. (2006). Measuring the full economic costs of diet, physical activity and obesity-related chronic diseases. Obesity Reviews, 7(3), 271-293.

Counselling

Croteau, K., Schofield, G. & McLean, G. (2006). Physical activity advice in the primary care setting: Results of a population study in New Zealand. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 30(3): 262-267.

Kerse, N., Raina Elley, C., Robinson, E. & Arroll, B. (2005). Is physical activity counseling effective for older people? A cluster randomized, controlled trial in primary care. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,53(11): 1951-1957.

van der Ploeg, H. P., Streppel, K. R. M., van der Beek, A. J., van der Woude, A. H. V., Vollenbroek-Hutten, M. M. R., van Harten, W. H. & van Mechelen, W. (2006). Counselling increases physical activity behaviour nine weeks after rehabilitation. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 40(3): 223-229.

Pinto, B. M., Goldstein, M. G., Ashba, J., Sciamanna, C. N. & Jette, A. (2005). Randomized controlled trial of physical activity counseling for older primary care patients. American Journal Of Preventive Medicine, 29(4), 247-255.

Blood pressure

Guidry, M. A., Blanchard, B. E., Thompson, P. D., Maresh, C. M., Seip, R. L., Taylor, A. L. & Pescatello, L. S. (2006). The influence of short and long duration on the blood pressure response to an acute bout of dynamic exercise. American Heart Journal, 151(6): 1322.e5-1322.e12.

Padilla, J., Wallace, J. P. & Park, S. (2005). Accumulation of physical activity reduces blood pressure in pre- and hypertension. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 37(8): 1264-1275.

Pinto, A., Di Raimondo, D., Tuttolomondo, A., Fernandez, P., Arna, V. & Licata, G. (2006). Twenty-four hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring to evaluate effects on blood pressure of physical activity in hypertensive patients. Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine, 16(3): 238-243.

Cancer

Hutnick, N. A., Williams, N. I., Kraemer, W. J., Orsega-Smith, E., Dixon, R. H., Bleznak, A. D., Mastro, A. M. (2005). Exercise and lymphocyte activation following chemotherapy for breast cancer. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 37(11): 1827-1835.

Irwin, M. L., McTiernan, A., Bernstein, L., Gilliland, F. D., Baumgartner, R., Baumgartner, K. and Ballard-Barbash, R. (2004). Physical activity levels among breast cancer survivors. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 36(9), 1484-1492.

McTiernan, A., Kooperberg, C., White, E., Wilcox, S., Coates, R., Adams-Campbell, L., Woods, N. and Ockene, J. (2003). Recreational Physical Activity and the Risk of Breast Cancer in Postmenopausal Women: The Women's Health Initiative Cohort Study. Journal of the American Medical Association, 290(10), 1331-1336.

Pan, S. Y., Ugnat, A-M. & Mao, Y. (2005). Physical activity and the risk of ovarian cancer: A case-control study in Canada. International Journal of Cancer, 117(2), 300-307.

Pinto, B. M., Trunzo, J. J., Rabin, C., Cady, B., Fenton, M. A., Herman, A., Legare, R. and Sikov, W. (2004). Recruitment strategies for a home-based physical activity intervention for breast cancer patients. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 11(3), 171-178.

Cardiac Rehabilitation

Witt, B. J., Jacobsen, S. J., Weston, S. A., Killian, J. M., Meverden, R A., Allison, T. G., Reeder, G. S. and Roger, V. L. (2004). Cardiac rehabilitation after myocardial infarction in the community. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 44(5), 988-996.

Cardiovascular disease

Corvera-Tindel, T., Doering, L., Woo, M, Khan, S., Dracup, K. (2004). Effects of a home walking exercise program on functional status and symptoms in heart failure. American Heart Journal, 147(2), 339-346.

Evangelista, L. S., Dracup, K., Erickson, V., McCarthy, W. J., Hamilton, M. A. & Fonarow, G. C. (2005) Validity of pedometers for measuring exercise adherence in heart failure patients. Journal Of Cardiac Failure 11 (5), 366-371.

Fang, J., Wylie-Rosett, J., Cohen, H., Kaplan, R. and Alderman, M. (2003). Exercise, body mass index, caloric intake, and cardiovascular mortality. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, (25)4, 283-289.

Franco, O. H., de Laet, C., Peeters, A., Jonker, J., Mackenbach, J. & Nusselder, W. (2005). Effects of physical activity on life expectancy with cardiovascular disease. Archives of Internal Medicine, 165(20): 2355-2360.

Gondoni, L. A., Liuzzi, A., Titon, A. M., Taronna, O., Nibbio, F., Ferrari, P. & Leonetti, G. (2006). A simple tool to predict exercise capacity of obese patients with ischaemic heart disease. Heart, 92(7): 899-904.

Hui, S. S. C., Thomas, N. & Tomlinson, B. (2005). Relationship between physical activity, fitness, and CHD risk factors in middle-age Chinese. Journal Of Physical Activity & Health, 2(3) 307-323.

Knez, W. L., Coombes, J. S. & Jenkins, D. G. (2006). Ultra-endurance exercise and oxidative damage: Implications for cardiovascular health. Sports Medicine, 36(5): 429-441.

Nanas, S., Anastasiou-Nana, M., Dimopoulos, S., Sakellariou, D., Alexopoulos, G., Kapsimalakou, S., Papazoglou, P., Tsolakis, E., Papazachou, O. & Roussos, C. (2006). Early heart rate recovery after exercise predicts mortality in patients with chronic heart failure. International Journal of Cardiology, 110(3): 393-400.

Peteiro, J. s., Monserrrat, L., Piñeiro, M., Calviño, R., Vazquez, J. M., Mariñas, J. & Castro-Beiras, A. (2006). Comparison of exercise echocardiography and the Duke treadmill score for risk stratification in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease and normal resting electrocardiogram. American Heart Journal, 151(6): 1324.e1-1324.e10.

Podewils, L. J., Guallar, E., Kuller, L. H., Fried, L. P., Lopez, O. L., Carlson, M. and Lyketsos, C. G. (2005). Physical activity, APOE genotype, and dementia risk: findings from the cardiovascular health cognition study. American Journal of Epidemiology, 161(7), 639-651.

Richardson, C. R., Kriska, A. M., Lantz, P. M. and Hayward, R. A. (2004). Physical activity and mortality across cardiovascular disease risk groups. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 36(11), 1923-1929.

Sundquist, K., Qvist, J., Johansson, S. E. and Sundquist, J. (2005). The long-term effect of physical activity on incidence of coronary heart disease: A 12-year follow-up study. Preventive Medicine, 41(1), 219-225.

Ünal, B., Critchley, J. A., Fidan, D. and Capewell, S. (2005). Life-years gained from modern cardiological treatments and population risk factor changes in England and Wales, 1981–2000. American Journal of Public Health, 95, 103-108.

Wannamethee, S.G., and Shaper, A.G. (2001). Physical activity in the prevention of cardiovascular disease - An epidemiological perspective. Sports Medicine, 31(2), 101-114.

Yoshinaga, K., Beanlands, R. S., deKemp, R. A., Lortie, M., Morin, J., Aung, M., McKelvie, R. & Davies, R. F. (2006). Effect of exercise training on myocardial blood flow in patients with stable coronary artery disease. American Heart Journal, 151(6): 1324.e11-1324.e18.

Cognitive function

Petrovitch, H. & White, L. (2005). Exercise and cognitive function. Lancet Neurology, 4(11): 690-691.

Depression

Brown, W. J., Ford, J. H., Burton, N. W., Marshall, A. L. & Dobson, A. J. (2005). Prospective study of physical activity and depressive symptoms in middle-aged women. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 29(4): 265-272.

De Moor, M. H., Beem, A. L., Stubbe, J. H., Boomsma, D. I. & De Geus, E. J. (2006). Regular exercise, anxiety, depression and personality: A population-based study. Preventive Medicine, 42(4): 273-279.

Dunn, A. L., Trivedi, M. H., Kampert, J. B., Clark, C. G. and Chambliss, H. O. (2005). Exercise treatment for depression. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 28(1), 1-8.

Stein, M. B. (2005). Sweating away the blues: can exercise treat depression? American Journal of Preventative Medicine, 28(1), 140-141.

Wise, L. A., Adams-Campbell, L. L., Palmer, J. R. and Rosenberg, L. (2006). Leisure time physical activity in relation to depressive symptoms in the black women's health study. Annals of Behavioural Medicine, 32(1), 68-76.

Diabetes

An, P., Teran-Garcia, M., Rice, T., Rankinen, T., Weisnagel, S. J., Bergman, R. N., Boston, R. C., Mandel, S., Stefanovski, D., Leon, A. S., Skinner, J. S., Rao, D. C. and Bouchard, C. (2005). Genome-wide linkage scans for prediabetes phenotypes in response to 20 weeks of endurance exercise training in nondiabetic whites and blacks: the HERITAGE Family Study. Diabetologia, 48(6),1142-1149.

Briscoe, V.J., Tate, D.B. & Davis, S.N. (2007). Type 1 diabetes: exercise and hypoglycaemia. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 32(3): 576-82.

Di Loratio, C., Fanelli, C., Lucidi, P., Murdolo, G., De Cicco, A., Parlanti, N., Ranachelli, A., Fatone, C., Taglioni, C., Santeusanio, F. and De Feo, Pierpaolo. (2005). Make your diabetic patients walk. Long term impact of different amounts of physical activity on type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care, 28, 1295-1302.

Dziura, J., Kasl, S. and Di Pietro, L. (2004). Physical activity reduces Type 2 diabetes risk in aging independent of body weight change. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 1, 19-28.

Higgins, S., Gill, J. M. R., Janilionyte, R., Caslake, M. J. and Malkova, D. (2005). Physical activity, dietary intake and metabolic risk factors in non-diabetic daughters of patients with type II diabetes. Preventive Medicine, 40(2), 145-151.

Holloszy, J. O. (2005). Exercise-induced increase in muscle insulin sensitivity. Journal Of Applied Physiology, 99(1), 338-343.

Hsia, J., Wu, L., Allen, A., Oberman, A., Lawson,W. E., Torrens,J., Safford, M., Limacher, M. C., Howard, B. V. and Women’s Health Initiative Research Group. (2005). Physical activity and diabetes risk in postmenopausal women. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 28(1), 19-25.

Hu, G., Lakka, T.A., Kilpelainen, T.O. & Tuomilehto, J. (2007). Epidemiological studies of exercise in diabetes prevention. Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism, 32(3): 583-95.

Jenum, A. K., Anderssen, S. A., Birkeland, K. I., Holme, I., Graff-Iversen, S., Lorentzen, C., Ommundsen, Y., Raastad, T., Odegaard, A. K. and Bahr, R. (2006). Promoting physical activity in a low-income multiethnic district: effects of a community intervention study to reduce risk factors for type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease: a community intervention reducing inactivity. Diabetes Care, 29(7), 1605-1612.

Johnson, S. T., McCargar, L. J., Bell, G. J., Tudor-Locke, C., Harber, V. J. & Bell, R. C., Walking Faster: Distilling a complex prescription for type 2 diabetes management through pedometry. Diabetes Care, 29(7): 1654-1655.

Kirk, A. F., Mutrie, N., MacIntyre, P. D. and Fisher, M. B. (2004). Promoting and maintaining physical activity in people with type 2 diabetes. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 27(4), 289-296.

Kriska, A. M., Edelstein, S. L., Hamman, R. F., Otto, A., Bray, G. A., Mayer-Davis, E. J., Wing, R. R., Horton, E. S., Haffner, S. M. and Regensteiner, J. G. (2006). Physical activity in individuals at risk for diabetes: Diabetes prevention programme. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 38(5), 826-832.

Lazarevic, G., Antic, S., Cvetkovic, T., Vlahovic, P., et. al. (2006). A physical activity programme and its effects on insulin resistance and oxidative defense in obese male patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetes and Metabolism, 32 (6): 583-590.

O’Donovan, G., Kearney, E. M., Nevill, A. M., Woolf-May, K. & Bird, S. R. (2005). The effects of 24 weeks of moderate- or high-intensity exercise on insulin resistance. European Journal of Applied Physiology, 95(5-6): 522-528.

Sandoval, D. A., Guy, D. L. A., Richardson, M. A., Ertl, A. C. & Davis, S. N. (2006). Acute, same-day effects of antecedent exercise on counterregulatory responses to subsequent hypoglycemia in type 1 diabetes mellitus. American Journal of Physiology, 290(6) Part 1: E1331-E1338.

Swartz, A.M., Strath, S.J., Bassett, D.R., Moore, J.B., Redwine, B.A., Groer, M., and Thompson, D.L. (2003) Increasing daily walking improves glucose tolerance in overweight women. PREVENTIVE MEDICINE, 37, 356-362.

Metabolic syndrome

Stewart, K. J., Bacher, A. C., Turner, K., Lim, J.G., Hees, P. S., Shapiro, E. P., Tayback, M. and Ouyang, P. (2005). Exercise and risk factors associated with metabolic syndrome in older adults. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 8(1), 9-18.

Obesity

Blanchard, C. M., McGannon, K. R., Spence, J. C., Rhodes, R. E., Nehl, E., Baker, F. and Bostwick, J. (2005). Social ecological correlates of physical activity in normal weight, overweight, and obese individuals. International Journal of Obesity, 29(6), 720-726.

Bond, D. S., Evans, R. K. and DeMaria, E. (2006). Physical Activity and Quality of Life Improvements Before Obesity Surgery. American Journal of Health Behaviour, 30(4), 422-434.

Carrel, A. L., Clark, R. R., Peterson, S. E., Nemeth, B. A., Sullivan, J. & Allen, D. B. (2005). Improvement of Fitness, Body Composition, and Insulin Sensitivity in Overweight Children in a School-Based Exercise Program. Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, 159, 963-968.

Carrel, A. L. and Bernhardt, D. T. (2004). Exercise prescription for the prevention of obesity in adolescents. Current Sports Medicine Reports, 3(6), 330-336.

Chapman, M., Craven. M. and Chadwick, D. (2005) Fighting Fit? An evaluation of health practitioner input to improve healthy living and reduce obesity for adults with learning disabilities. Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 9(2), 131-144.

Crouter, S. E., Schneider, P. L. & Bassett, D. R. (2005). Spring-levered versus piezo-electric pedometer accuracy in overweight and obese adults. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 37(10): 1673-1679.

Dallow, C. and Anderson, J. (2003). Using Self-efficacy and a Transtheoretical Model to Develop a Physical Activity Intervention for Obese Women. American Journal of Health Promotion, 17(6), 373-381.

Di Pietro, L., Dziura, J. and Blair, S. N. (2004). Estimated change in physical activity level (PAL) and prediction of 5-year-weight change in men: The Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study. International Journal of Obesity, 28(12), 1541-1547.

Eiben, G. & Lissner, L. (2006). Health Hunters–an intervention to prevent overweight and obesity in young high-risk women. International Journal of Obesity, 30(4): 691-696.

Ekkekakis, P. & Lind, E. (2006). Exercise does not feel the same when you are overweight: the impact of self-selected and imposed intensity on affect and exertion. International Journal of Obesity, 30(4): 652-660.

Gallagher, K. I., Jakicic, J. M., Napolitano, M. A. & Marcus, B. H. (2006). Psychosocial factors related to physical activity and weight loss in overweight women. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 38(5): 971-980.

Gutin, B., Yin, Z., Humphries, M. C. and Barbeau, P. (2005). Relations of moderate and vigorous physical activity to fitness and fatness in adolescents. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 81(4), 746-750.

Hancox, R.J. & Poultn, R. (2005). Watching television is associated with childhood obesity: but is it clinically important? International Journal of Obesity 30(1): 171-175.

Hu, F.B. (2004). Adiposity as compared with physical activity in predicting mortality among women. New England Journal of Medicine, 351(26), 2694-2703.

Jakicic, J. M. and Otto, A. D. (2005). Physical activity recommendations in the treatment of obesity. Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 28(1), 141-150.

Kelley, G. A., Kelley, K. S. & Tran, Z. V. (2005). Aerobic exercise, lipids and lipoproteins in overweight and obese adults: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. International Journal Of Obesity, 29(8), 881-893.

Levine, J. A., Lanningham-Foster, L. M., McCrady, S. K., Krizan, A. C., Olson, L. R., Kane, P, H., Jensen, M. D. and Clark, M. M. (2005). Interindividual variation in posture allocation: possible role in human obesity. Science, 28(307), 584-586.

Okura, T., Nakata, Y., Lee, D. J., Ohkawara, K. & Tanaka, K. (2005). Effects of aerobic exercise and obesity phenotype on abdominal fat reduction in response to weight loss. International Journal Of Obesity, 29(10), 1259-1266.

Seres, L., Lopez-Ayerbe, J., Coll, R., Rodriguez, O., Vila, J., Formiguera, X., Alastrue, A., Rull, M. & Valle, V. (2006). Increased exercise capacity after surgically induced weight loss in morbid obesity. Obesity, 14(2): 273-279.

Snow, V., Barry, P., Fitterman, N., Qaseem, A, and Weiss K. (2005). Pharmacologic and surgical management of obesity in primary care: a clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians. Annals of Internal Medicine, 142(7), 525-531.

Speiser, P. W., Rudolf, M. C. J., Anhalt, H., Camacho-Hubner, c., Chiarelli, F., Eliakim, A., Freemark, M., Gruters, A., Hershkovitz, E., Iughetti, L., Krude, H., Latzer, Y., Lustig, R. H., Pescovitz, O. H., Pinhas-Hamiel, O., Rogol, A. D., Shalitin, S., Sultan, C., Stein, D., Vardi, P., Werther, G. A., Zadik, Z., Zuckerman-Levin, N. & Hochberg, Z. (2005). CONSENSUS STATEMENT: Childhood Obesity. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 90(3), 1871-1887.

Stubbs, C. O. and Lee, A. J. (2004). The obesity epidemic: both energy intake and physical activity contribute. Medical Journal of Australia, 181(9), 489-491.

Summerbell C. D, et al. (2005). Interventions for preventing obesity in children. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Issue 3.

Taylor, W. C., Walker S. C. P., Jones, L. & Kraft, M. M. (2006). Environmental justice: Obesity, physical activity, and healthy eating. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 3, Suppl. S30-S54.

Timperio, A., Salmon, J., Telford, A. and Crawford, D. (2005). Perceptions of local neighbourhood environments and their relationship to childhood overweight and obesity. International Journal of Obesity, 29(2), 170-175.

Thomas, A., Michaelson, J., Ball, S. and Thomas, T. (2004). Single sessions of intermittent and continuous exercise and postprandial lipemia. Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise, 36(8), 1364-1371.

Timperio, A., Salmon, J. and Crawford, D. (2003). Validity and reliability of a physical activity recall instrument among overweight and non-overweight men and women. Journal of Science and Medicine In Sport, 6(4), 477-491.

Parkinson's disease

Chen, H., Zhang, S. M., Schwarzschild, M. A., Hernán, M. A. and Ascherio, A. (2005). Physical activity and the risk of Parkinson’s disease. Neurology, (64), 664-669.

Pregnancy

Petersen, A. M., Leet, T. L. & Brownson, R. C. (2005). Correlates of physical activity among pregnant women in the United States. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 37(10): 1748-1753.

Rousham, E. K., Clarke, P. E. & Gross, H. (2006). Significant changes in physical activity among pregnant women in the UK as assessed by accelerometry and self-reported activity. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 60(3): 393-400.

Sorensen, T., Williams, M., Lee, I.-M., Dashow, E., Thompson, M., Luthy, D. (2003). Recreational physical activity during pregnancy and risk of preeclampsia. Hypertension, 41(6), 1273-1280.

Treuth, M. S., Butte, N. F. and Puyau, M. (2005). Pregnancy-related changes in physical activity, fitness, and strength. Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, 37(5), 832-837.

Self-esteem

Spence, J. C., McGannon, K. R. & Poon, P. (2005). The effect of exercise on global self-esteem: A quantitative review. Journal Of Sport And Exercise Psychology, 27(3), 311-334.

Spinal cord injury

Buchholz, A. C., McGillivray, C. F., & Pencharz, P. B. (2003). Physical activity levels are low in free-living adults with chronic paraplegia. Obesity Research, 11(4), 563-570.

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