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Dose-response relation between physical activity and blood pressure in youthAmy E Mark
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 40:1007-12. 2008..The dose-response relationship between physical activity (PA) and cardiovascular health in children and adolescents is unclear. Blood pressure (BP) is a practical and useful measure of cardiovascular health in youth...
Elevated body mass index and mortality risk in the elderlyI Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Obes Rev 8:41-59. 2007....- Influence of multiple risk behaviors on physical activity-related injuries in adolescentsIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology and School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, 69 Union St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Pediatrics 119:e672-80. 2007.... - Associations between overweight and obesity with bullying behaviors in school-aged childrenIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Pediatrics 113:1187-94. 2004..However, the relationship between overweight and obesity status with different forms of bullying behaviors remains unclear. The purpose of this article is to examine these relationships... - Skeletal muscle cutpoints associated with elevated physical disability risk in older men and womenIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Am J Epidemiol 159:413-21. 2004.... - The healthcare costs of sarcopenia in the United StatesIan Janssen
Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:80-5. 2004..To estimate the healthcare costs of sarcopenia in the United States and to examine the effect that a reduced sarcopenia prevalence would have on healthcare expenditures... - Overweight and obesity in Canadian adolescents and their associations with dietary habits and physical activity patternsIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Adolesc Health 35:360-7. 2004..To present recent overweight and obesity prevalence rates for 11-16-year-old Canadian youth and to examine associations between overweight and obesity with dietary habits and leisure-time physical activities... - Separate and combined influence of body mass index and waist circumference on arthritis and knee osteoarthritisI Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Int J Obes (Lond) 30:1223-8. 2006..To determine if the combination of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) explains an additional component of arthritis and knee osteoarthritis risk than is accounted for by either anthropometric measure alone... - Influence of sarcopenia on the development of physical disability: the Cardiovascular Health StudyIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:56-62. 2006..To examine the temporal relationship between sarcopenia and disability in elderly men and women... - Comparison of overweight and obesity prevalence in school-aged youth from 34 countries and their relationships with physical activity and dietary patternsI Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Obes Rev 6:123-32. 2005..Increasing physical activity participation and decreasing television viewing should be the focus of strategies aimed at preventing and treating overweight and obesity in youth... - Influence of individual- and area-level measures of socioeconomic status on obesity, unhealthy eating, and physical inactivity in Canadian adolescentsIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Am J Clin Nutr 83:139-45. 2006..However, few studies have used a multilevel analysis to determine the influence of both individual- and area-level determinants of SES on obesity, and these studies have been limited to adults... - Combined influence of body mass index and waist circumference on coronary artery disease risk factors among children and adolescentsIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6, Canada
Pediatrics 115:1623-30. 2005.... - Body mass index is inversely related to mortality in older people after adjustment for waist circumferenceIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Am Geriatr Soc 53:2112-8. 2005..To examine the individual and combined influence of body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) on mortality risk in older people... 
Cross national study of injury and social determinants in adolescentsW Pickett
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Angada 3, 76 Stuart Street, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Inj Prev 11:213-8. 2005..To compare estimates of the prevalence of injury among adolescents in 35 countries, and to examine the consistency of associations cross nationally between socioeconomic status then drunkenness and the occurrence of adolescent injury...- Reduction in obesity and related comorbid conditions after diet-induced weight loss or exercise-induced weight loss in men. A randomized, controlled trialR Ross
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Ann Intern Med 133:92-103. 2000..The effects of exercise without weight loss on fat distribution and other risk factors are also unclear... - Effects of an energy-restrictive diet with or without exercise on abdominal fat, intermuscular fat, and metabolic risk factors in obese womenIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Diabetes Care 25:431-8. 2002..The improvement in the metabolic profile was not enhanced by the addition of aerobic or resistance exercise. The findings reinforce the importance of diminished visceral fat in the treatment of insulin resistance... - Plasma leptin in moderately obese men: independent effects of weight loss and aerobic exerciseF S Thong
Department of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences, University of Guelph, N1G 2W1, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 279:E307-13. 2000..We conclude that reduction in adipose tissue after weight loss results in a collateral decrease in circulating leptin, and exercise, independent of its effects on weight loss, has no profound influence on leptin secretion... - Exercise alone is an effective strategy for reducing obesity and related comorbiditiesR Ross
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Exerc Sport Sci Rev 28:165-70. 2000..Recent evidence counters the dogma that daily exercise produces only modest weight loss and suggests that exercise without diet restriction is an effective strategy for reducing obesity and related co-morbidities... - Sarcopenic-obesity and cardiovascular disease risk in the elderlyW C Stephen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Nutr Health Aging 13:460-6. 2009..To determine: 1) whether sarcopenic-obesity is a stronger predictor of cardiovascular disease (CVD) than either sarcopenia or obesity alone in the elderly, and 2) whether muscle mass or muscular strength is a stronger marker of CVD risk... - Associations between risk behavior and injury and the protective roles of social environments: an analysis of 7235 Canadian school childrenW Pickett
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, ON, Canada
Inj Prev 12:87-92. 2006..The purpose of this study was to apply this framework to examination of relationships between adolescent risk taking and injury, and the potential modifying effects of supportive home and school environments... - Influences of body mass index and waist circumference on physical function in older persons with heart failureStephanie A Prince
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Ontario, Canada
Can J Cardiol 24:905-11. 2008..There is a lack of research concerning the associations between waist circumference (WC) or body mass index (BMI) and physical function in this population... - Waist circumference and not body mass index explains obesity-related health riskIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
Am J Clin Nutr 79:379-84. 2004..Thus, for a given WC value, overweight and obese persons and normal-weight persons have comparable health risks. However, when WC is dichotomized as normal or high, BMI remains a significant predictor of health risk... - Body mass index, waist circumference, and health risk: evidence in support of current National Institutes of Health guidelinesIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Arch Intern Med 162:2074-9. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: The National Institutes of Health cutoff points for WC help to identify those at increased health risk within the normal-weight, overweight, and class I obese BMI categories... - Fitness alters the associations of BMI and waist circumference with total and abdominal fatIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Obes Res 12:525-37. 2004..DISCUSSION: These findings suggest that a reduction in total adiposity and abdominal fat may be a means by which CRF attenuates the health risk attributable to obesity as determined by BMI and WC... - Influence of age on the relation between waist circumference and cardiometabolic risk markersI Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, 69 Union Street, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Nutr Metab Cardiovasc Dis 19:163-9. 2009..To determine whether the relation between waist circumference (WC) and cardiometabolic risk markers is attenuated with advancing age... - Cardiorespiratory fitness and metabolic syndrome: US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2002Susan E Brien
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 32:143-7. 2007..In men, the odds of MetS were significantly lower in moderate and high CRF categories versus the low CRF category, whereas in women there were no significant relationships between CRF and MetS... - Ethnic comparisons of sarcopenia and obesity in diabetesCarmen Castaneda
Nutrition, Exercise Physiology and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer US Dept of Agriculture USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ethn Dis 15:664-70. 2005..To examine the association between obesity and low relative skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) with type 2 diabetes and poor glycemic control, and to determine whether these associations varied by ethnicity... - Discrimination of health risk by combined body mass index and waist circumferenceChristopher I Ardern
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Obes Res 11:135-42. 2003..DISCUSSION: In women already at increased health risk because of an elevated BMI, the additional measurement of WC may help identify cardiovascular risk... - Dietary patterns and the risk of mortality: impact of cardiorespiratory fitnessMariane Héroux
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Int J Epidemiol 39:197-209. 2010..The primary objective was to assess the relation between dietary patterns with all-cause mortality, while controlling for the potentially confounding effects of fitness... - Is abdominal fat preferentially reduced in response to exercise-induced weight loss?R Ross
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 31:S568-72. 1999..This review was undertaken to clarify whether abdominal fat is preferentially reduced consequent to weight loss induced by regular exercise... - Low relative skeletal muscle mass (sarcopenia) in older persons is associated with functional impairment and physical disabilityIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Am Geriatr Soc 50:889-96. 2002..These observations provide strong support for the prevailing view that sarcopenia may be an important and potentially reversible cause of morbidity and mortality in older persons... - Abdominal obesity and physical inactivity are associated with erectile dysfunction independent of body mass indexPeter M Janiszewski
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Sex Med 6:1990-8. 2009..Erectile dysfunction (ED) is common among men with an elevated body mass index (BMI). However, a high waist circumference (WC) and low levels of physical activity may predict ED independently of BMI... - Utility of childhood BMI in the prediction of adulthood disease: comparison of national and international referencesIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Obes Res 13:1106-15. 2005..The differences in the predictive capacity of the CDC Reference and IOTF Reference are, however, minimal... - Ability of physical activity to predict cardiovascular disease beyond commonly evaluated cardiometabolic risk factorsK Ashlee McGuire
Queen s University School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Am J Cardiol 104:1522-6. 2009..In conclusion, PA was associated with CVD, independent of the common cardiometabolic risk factors, in men and women. The association between PA and CVD risk was not mediated by the measured cardiometabolic risk factors... - Are overweight and obese youth at increased risk for physical activity injuries?Joel Warsh
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Obes Facts 3:225-30. 2010..To determine whether relationships between physical activity and physical activity injuries are modified by BMI status in youth... 
Vascular risks and management of obesity in children and adolescentsCourtney J Jolliffe
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Vasc Health Risk Manag 2:171-87. 2006..While pharmacotherapy appears promising, additional evidence is needed, especially with respect to the long-term impact, before it becomes a widespread treatment option in the pediatric population...- Physical inactivity, excess adiposity and premature mortalityP T Katzmarzyk
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Obes Rev 4:257-90. 2003..Studies that used a measure of adiposity other than the BMI show similar relationships with mortality, and stratified analyses indicate that both physical inactivity and adiposity are important determinants of mortality risk... - Application of simple anthropometry in the assessment of health risk: implications for the Canadian Physical Activity, Fitness and Lifestyle AppraisalIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, ON
Can J Appl Physiol 27:396-414. 2002..Consistent with this objective, when necessary we present original data to reinforce important concepts not suitably addressed in the literature... - Development of age-specific adolescent metabolic syndrome criteria that are linked to the Adult Treatment Panel III and International Diabetes Federation criteriaCourtney J Jolliffe
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Am Coll Cardiol 49:891-8. 2007..The study objectives were to develop age-specific adolescent metabolic syndrome (MetS) criteria that were linked to the health-based Adult Treatment Panel III (ATP) and International Diabetes Federation (IDF) adult criteria... - The economic costs associated with physical inactivity and obesity in Canada: an updatePeter T Katzmarzyk
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Can J Appl Physiol 29:90-115. 2004..6% and 2.2%, respectively, of the total health care costs in Canada. The results underscore the importance of public health efforts aimed at combating the current epidemics of physical inactivity and obesity in Canada... - Linking age-related changes in skeletal muscle mass and composition with metabolism and diseaseI Janssen
Nutrition, Exercise Physiology, and Sarcopenia Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, MA 02111, USA
J Nutr Health Aging 9:408-19. 2005..An emerging body of evidence also suggests that age-related changes in the composition of SM, particularly the accumulation of lipids within SM fibers, may lead to metabolic disorders such as insulin resistance... - Physical activity, total and regional obesity: dose-response considerationsR Ross
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Ontario, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 33:S521-7; discussion S528-9. 2001..This review was undertaken to determine whether exercise-induced weight loss was associated with corresponding reductions in total, abdominal, and visceral fat in a dose-response manner... - Influence of overweight and obesity on physician costs in adolescents and adults in Ontario, CanadaI Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Obes Rev 10:51-7. 2009..Because Ontario operates a publicly funded healthcare system, the findings of this study have relevance for other provinces/states and countries that operate similar healthcare systems... - Influence of physical activity on age-related weight loss in the elderlyWendy C Stephen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Phys Act Health 7:78-86. 2010..Little is known about the effects of physical activity on weight loss in older adults... - Development of health-related waist circumference thresholds within BMI categoriesChris I Ardern
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada
Obes Res 12:1094-103. 2004..In normal weight, overweight, obese I, and obese II+ patients, WC cut-offs of 90, 100, 110, and 125 cm in men and 80, 90, 105, and 115 cm in women, respectively, can be used to identify those at increased risk... - Relationship between screen time and metabolic syndrome in adolescentsAmy E Mark
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, 69 Union Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Public Health (Oxf) 30:153-60. 2008..The primary objective was to determine the dose-response relation between screen time (television + computer) and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) in adolescents... - Interindividual variation in abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue: influence of measurement siteSoJung Lee
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
J Appl Physiol 97:948-54. 2004..However, the ability to predict SAT and VAT mass by using single images obtained at the L4-L5, L4-L5 +5 cm, or L3-L4 levels is comparable... - Body mass index and waist circumference independently contribute to the prediction of nonabdominal, abdominal subcutaneous, and visceral fatIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Am J Clin Nutr 75:683-8. 2002..These observations reinforce the importance of using both BMI and WC in clinical practice... - Does the relationship between waist circumference, morbidity and mortality depend on measurement protocol for waist circumference?R Ross
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Obes Rev 9:312-25. 2008..Our findings suggest that WC measurement protocol has no substantial influence on the association between WC, all-cause and CVD mortality, CVD and diabetes... - Prevalence and secular changes in abdominal obesity in Canadian adolescents and adults, 1981 to 2007-2009I Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Obes Rev 12:397-405. 2011..5 cm in men and 10.6 cm in women. Within the 2007-2009 survey, 2.6% of normal weight adults had abdominal obesity, 35.3% of overweight adults had abdominal obesity and 93.0% of obese adults had abdominal obesity... - Does waist circumference predict diabetes and cardiovascular disease beyond commonly evaluated cardiometabolic risk factors?Peter M Janiszewski
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
Diabetes Care 30:3105-9. 2007..In response, we sought to determine whether WC predicts diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) beyond that explained by BMI and commonly obtained cardiometabolic risk factors including blood pressure, lipoproteins, and glucose... - Age-specific lipid and lipoprotein thresholds for adolescentsCourtney J Jolliffe
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Cardiovasc Nurs 23:56-60. 2008.... - Abdominal obesity, muscle composition, and insulin resistance in premenopausal womenRobert Ross
Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
J Clin Endocrinol Metab 87:5044-51. 2002..Subdivision of abdominal sc AT did not provide additional insight into the relationship between abdominal obesity and metabolic risk... - Physical activity guidelines and guides for Canadians: facts and futureMark S Tremblay
Children s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Can J Public Health 98:S218-24. 2007..Recommendations on how to proceed are based on the evidence base provided by this series of papers; the immediate next steps mandated by this initiative are outlined and priorities for future research are indicated... - [Guidelines for physical activity in children and young people]Ian Janssen
Ecole de kinésiologie et d études en santé, Département de santé communautaire et d épidémiologie, Université Queen s, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 32:S122-35. 2007..The final section identifies future research needs. In this section, a need is noted for comprehensive dose-response studies of physical activity and health in the paediatric age group... - Metabolic syndrome, obesity, and mortality: impact of cardiorespiratory fitnessPeter T Katzmarzyk
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Diabetes Care 28:391-7. 2005..To determine in normal weight, overweight, and obese men the risk of all-cause and cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality associated with the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the influence of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF)... - Dynapenic-obesity and physical function in older adultsDanielle R Bouchard
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 65:71-7. 2010..It was hypothesized that older individuals with both conditions (dynapenic-obesity) would have a more impaired physical function than individuals with dynapenia or obesity alone... - Effect of current and midlife obesity status on mortality risk in the elderlyIan Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:2504-9. 2008..Conversely, nonobese older adults who were obese at midlife had an increased mortality risk. These observations imply that it is imperative to consider an elderly adult's BMI in context of their BMI at midlife... - Morbidity and mortality risk associated with an overweight BMI in older men and womenIan Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:1827-40. 2007..9 kg/m2) are at increased health risk and whether they should be encouraged to lose weight. The purpose of this study was to determine whether older adults with a BMI in the overweight range are at increased morbidity and mortality risk... - Rural Canadian adolescents are more likely to be obese compared with urban adolescentsMark W Bruner
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, ON, Canada
Int J Pediatr Obes 3:205-11. 2008..The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between urban/rural geographic status and being overweight or obese among Canadian adolescents... - Physical activity guidelines for children and youthIan Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Department of Community Health, and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Can J Public Health 98:S109-21. 2007..The final section identifies future research needs. In this section, a need is noted for comprehensive dose-response studies of physical activity and health in the paediatric age group... - Heart disease risk among metabolically healthy obese men and metabolically unhealthy lean menIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ont
CMAJ 172:1315-6. 2005 - Revised Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines and cardiovascular disease mortality in men attending a preventive medical clinicChris I Ardern
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada
Circulation 112:1478-85. 2005..Furthermore, men who were physically fit or who did not have the metabolic syndrome had a lower risk of CVD mortality... - Systematic review of the health benefits of physical activity and fitness in school-aged children and youthIan Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act 7:40. 2010..abstract:.. - Abdominal adiposity and insulin resistance in obese menRobert Ross
School of Physical and Health Education, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 282:E657-63. 2002..Subdivision of visceral and abdominal subcutaneous AT by MRI did not provide additional insight into the relationship between abdominal obesity and metabolic risk in obese men... - Multilevel analysis of associations between socioeconomic status and injury among Canadian adolescentsKelly Simpson
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, 69 Union Street, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
J Epidemiol Community Health 59:1072-7. 2005..CONCLUSIONS: Associations between SES and adolescent injury exist; however, the direction of these relations becomes more apparent with particular indicators of SES and when homogenous injury outcomes are evaluated... - Exercise-induced reduction in obesity and insulin resistance in women: a randomized controlled trialRobert Ross
School of Physical and Health Education, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Obes Res 12:789-98. 2004..To determine the effects of equivalent diet- or exercise-induced weight loss and exercise without weight loss on subcutaneous fat, visceral fat, and insulin sensitivity in obese women... - Associations between school recreational environments and physical activityMarianne E Nichol
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
J Sch Health 79:247-54. 2009..School environments may promote or hinder physical activity in young people. The purpose of this research was to examine relationships between school recreational environments and adolescent physical activity... - The importance of waist circumference in the definition of metabolic syndrome: prospective analyses of mortality in menPeter T Katzmarzyk
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Diabetes Care 29:404-9. 2006.... - Cardiorespiratory fitness is strongly related to the metabolic syndrome in adolescentsIan Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, 69 Union St, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, K7L 3N6
Diabetes Care 30:2143-4. 2007 - Evolution of sarcopenia researchIan Janssen
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, and Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 35:707-12. 2010..e., sarcopenic-obesity and dynapenic-obesity) on physical function, chronic disease, and mortality risk... - Association between the food retail environment surrounding schools and overweight in Canadian youthLaura M Seliske
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Public Health Nutr 12:1384-91. 2009..There is growing interest in how the physical environment influences obesity. Few studies have considered how the food retail environment surrounding schools influences overweight in students... - Relation between whole-body and regional measures of human skeletal muscleSo Jung Lee
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Am J Clin Nutr 80:1215-21. 2004..70, SEE = 8.7%). CONCLUSION: Although thigh measures of SM are better predictors of whole-body SM, a single image within the abdomen routinely used to estimate abdominal fat may also be a useful marker of whole-body SM... - Abdominal adipose tissue distribution and metabolic riskSuzy Wong
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Sports Med 33:709-26. 2003..When necessary, we present original data to reinforce important concepts not suitably addressed in the literature. We conclude with a consideration of proposed mechanisms that may link abdominal adiposity and metabolic risk... - Density and type of food retailers surrounding Canadian schools: variations across socioeconomic statusLaura M Seliske
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6
Health Place 15:903-7. 2009..Within the broader neighbourhood, lower SES neighbourhoods had access to fewer food retailers of all types. This effect was diminished after taking population density into account... - Influence of bouts of physical activity on overweight in youthAmy E Mark
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Am J Prev Med 36:416-21. 2009..It is unknown whether bouts of physical activity confer benefits beyond the total volume of physical activity. It was hypothesize that bouts of physical activity would independently predict overweight in youth... - Duration of overweight and metabolic health risk in American men and womenIan Janssen
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, K7L 3N6, Ontario, Canada
Ann Epidemiol 14:585-91. 2004..CONCLUSIONS: The duration of overweight has a significant effect on obesity-related comorbidities in men and women... - Race and sex similarities in exercise-induced changes in blood lipids and fatnessChris I Ardern
School of Physical and Health Education, Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 36:1610-5. 2004..CONCLUSION: The multivariate associations among fat loss and changes in blood lipids consequent to aerobic exercise training are similar in black and white men and women... - Risk taking and recurrent health symptoms in Canadian adolescentsKelly Simpson
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen's University, Angada 3, 76 Stuart St, Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 2V7
Prev Med 43:46-51. 2006..CONCLUSION: Adolescent lifestyles that include risk-taking behavior are strongly associated with the occurrence of psychosomatic health symptoms. Collectively, these measures are useful clinical indicators of adolescent health status... - The Cooper Clinic Mortality Risk Index: clinical score sheet for menIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Am J Prev Med 29:194-203. 2005..This score sheet may help healthcare practitioners identify high-risk patients who might benefit from lifestyle modification, pharmacologic therapy, or other interventions... - Sarcopenic obesity predicts instrumental activities of daily living disability in the elderlyRichard N Baumgartner
Aging and Genetic Epidemiology Program, Division of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA
Obes Res 12:1995-2004. 2004..To determine the association of sarcopenic obesity with the onset of Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) disability in a cohort of 451 elderly men and women followed for up to 8 years... - Cardiorespiratory fitness as a predictor of cancer mortality among men with pre-diabetes and diabetesAngela M Thompson
Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 4600 Perkins Rd, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 4124, USA
Diabetes Care 31:764-9. 2008..The purpose of this article was to examine the risk of cancer mortality across levels of fitness and to examine the fitness-mortality relation for site-specific cancers in men with pre-diabetes and diabetes... - Metabolic syndrome and its association with morbidity and mortalityChris I Ardern
School of Kinesiology and Health Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 32:33-45. 2007.... - Metabolic syndrome in normal-weight Americans: new definition of the metabolically obese, normal-weight individualMarie Pierre St-Onge
Institute of Human Nutrition, Obesity Research Center, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA
Diabetes Care 27:2222-8. 2004..To determine the prevalence rates and likelihood of the metabolic syndrome and its individual components in normal-weight and slightly overweight individuals (BMI 18.5-26.9 kg/m(2))... - Influence of physical activity on mortality in elderly with coronary artery diseaseIan Janssen
School of Physical and Health Education, Queen s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Med Sci Sports Exerc 38:418-7. 2006.... - Distribution of lipoproteins by age and gender in adolescentsCourtney J Jolliffe
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Circulation 114:1056-62. 2006..This new classification system should provide a more accurate diagnosis of high-risk lipoprotein levels and associated cardiovascular risks in adolescents... - Ventilatory control and acid-base regulation across the menstrual cycle in oral contraceptive usersLindsay Nettlefold
School of Kinesiology and Health Studies, Queen s University, Kingston, Ont, Canada K7L 3N6
Respir Physiol Neurobiol 158:51-8. 2007..This may reflect suppression of endogenous fluctuations in circulating [P(4)] typically observed across the MC in healthy, eumenorrheic non-OC users... - Self-measured waist circumference in older patients with heart failure: a study of validity and reliability using a MyoTapeStephanie A Prince
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen s University, Kingston, ON, Canada
J Cardiopulm Rehabil Prev 28:43-7. 2008..No studies to date have measured the accuracy of self-measured WC in older persons with HF. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the reliability and validity of self-measured WC in older patients with HF... - Behavioral risk factors in relation to visceral adipose tissue deposition in adolescent femalesAviva Must
Department of Public Health and Family Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 3:28-36. 2008..To characterize visceral adipose tissue (VAT) and subcutaneous abdominal adipose tissue (SAAT) deposition in girls over the pubertal period and to assess the influence of behavioral risk factors on their deposition...