ReviewFrontiers in nutrition2014
Assessment of physical activity and energy expenditure: an overview of objective measures.
Review in Frontiers in nutrition, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04092322 (Validation of Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly), which is not on this map. Cited by 232 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Validation of Physical Activity Scale for the Elderly (PASE) in Stroke Patients: Relationship Between PASE and Physical Activity Measured by Portable Accelerometer
Who cites it
232 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 572 citations in OpenAlex.
- Pooled it
- Physical activity measurement tools among college students in intervention studies: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Effective dosage and mode of exercise for enhancing cognitive function in Alzheimer's disease and dementia: a systematic review and Bayesian Model-Based Network Meta-analysis of RCTs.BMC geriatrics · 2024Pooled it
- Systematic review of accelerometer-based methods for 24-h physical behavior assessment in young children (0-5 years old).The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2022Pooled it
- Recommendations for Determining the Validity of Consumer Wearables and Smartphones for the Estimation of Energy Expenditure: Expert Statement and Checklist of the INTERLIVE Network.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Pooled it
- Accuracy and Precision of Energy Expenditure, Heart Rate, and Steps Measured by Combined-Sensing Fitbits Against Reference Measures: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2022Pooled it
- Trial
- trips4health: a single-blinded randomised controlled trial incentivising adult public transport use for physical activity gain.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Trial
- Energy Expenditure Estimation of Tabata by Combining Acceleration and Heart Rate.Frontiers in public health · 2021Trial
- Moderate-to-Vigorous Physical Activity Is Associated With Cardiorespiratory Fitness Among Primary Schoolchildren Living in Côte d'Ivoire, South Africa, and Tanzania.Frontiers in public health · 2021Trial
- Effect of an mHealth Intervention Using a Pedometer App With Full In-Person Counseling on Body Composition of Overweight Adults: Randomized Controlled Weight Loss Trial.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2020Trial
- A novel scaling methodology to reduce the biases associated with missing data from commercial activity monitors.PloS one · 2020Trial
- Trial
- Resting Metabolic Rate Rises in Pregnancy, but Energy Intake and Active Expenditure Remain Stable: A Pilot Study.The Australian & New Zealand journal of obstetrics & gynaecology · 2026Article
- The Physiology Of the WEight Reduced State (POWERS) study: assessing energy balance.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Feasibility of energy expenditure estimation during outdoor walking using multimodal in-ear sensors: a preliminary validation study against indirect calorimetry.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Challenges, motivators and coping strategies of iron-folic acid tablets intake in the girls iron-folic acid tablet supplementation program in Wa municipality of Ghana.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Associations between preoperative resting energy expenditure and postoperative weight loss after metabolic bariatric surgery - a mid-term observational study.BMC surgery · 2026Observational
- Associations between physical activity levels and chronic lung diseases in middle-aged and older adults in China: A CHARLS-based study.PloS one · 2026Article
- Validity of self-assessment tools for cardiovascular risk behaviors: A systematic review.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2025Review
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Abstract
The ability to assess energy expenditure (EE) and estimate physical activity (PA) in free-living individuals is extremely important in the global context of non-communicable diseases including malnutrition, overnutrition (obesity), and diabetes. It is also important to appreciate that PA and EE are different constructs with PA defined as any bodily movement that results in EE and accordingly, energy is expended as a result of PA. However, total energy expenditure, best assessed using the criterion doubly labeled water (DLW) technique, includes components in addition to physical activity energy expenditure, namely resting energy expenditure and the thermic effect of food. Given the large number of assessment techniques currently used to estimate PA in humans, it is imperative to understand the relative merits of each. The goal of this review is to provide information on the utility and limitations of a range of objective measures of PA and their relationship with EE. The measures discussed include those based on EE or oxygen uptake including DLW, activity energy expenditure, physical activity level, and metabolic equivalent; those based on heart rate monitoring and motion sensors; and because of their widespread use, selected subjective measures.
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