Given its origins in high-income countries, the field of physical activity and public health
research and promotion has broadly followed a choice-based model. However, a substantial …

Objective Recent evidence suggests the existence of a physical activity paradox, with
beneficial health outcomes associated with leisure time physical activity, but detrimental …

Aims Leisure time physical activity associates with reduced risk of cardiovascular disease
and all-cause mortality, while these relationships for occupational physical activity are …

Physical activity (PA) is well documented to improve health. However, this documentation is
restricted to leisure time physical activity (LTPA; eg, sports, recreation and transportation) …

Objectives Emerging evidence suggests contrasting health effects for leisure-time and
occupational physical activity. In this systematic review, we synthesized and described the …

The use of a four‐level questionnaire to assess leisure time physical activity (PA) and its
validation is reviewed in this paper. This questionnaire was first published in 1968 and has …

Background With approximately 8 hours of one's waking day spent at work, occupational
tasks and environments are important influencers on an individual's physical activity (PA) …

In order to update and improve available evidence on associations of physical activity (PA)
with cardiovascular disease (CVD) by applying meta-analytic random effects modeling to …

Published literature reports controversial results about the association of physical activity
(PA) with risk of hypertension. A meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies was performed …

Background Physical activity positively influences cardiovascular health. Results from male-
dominated physically active occupations suggest that a high level of occupational physical …