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ReviewBritish journal of sports medicine2020

Towards better evidence-informed global action: lessons learnt from the Lancet series and recent developments in physical activity and public health.

Ding Ding, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Adrian E Bauman, Ulf Ekelund, I-Min Lee, Gregory Heath, Peter T Katzmarzyk, Rodrigo Reis, Michael Pratt

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Review in British journal of sports medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 105 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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105citing papers in PubMed, 12 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

105 citing papers in PubMed, 12 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. The impact of public policy on socioeconomic equity in physical activity: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026
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  10. Global, regional, and national trends and patterns in physical activity research since 1950: a systematic review.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2021
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  15. The effects of sports activity on cognition in nine- and ten-year-old children.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS · 2026
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45 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Ding DingPrevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia melody.ding@sydney.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9850-9224
Andrea Ramirez VarelaFaculty of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia.
Adrian E BaumanPrevention Research Collaboration, Sydney School of Public Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia.
Ulf EkelundDepartment of Sport Medicine, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Oslo, Norway.
I-Min LeeDivision of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Gregory HeathThe Department of Health & Human Performance, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
Peter T KatzmarzykPennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
Rodrigo ReisResearch Group in Physical Actvity and Quality of Life (GPAQ), Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná,Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil.
Michael PrattInstitute for Public Health, Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8939-7715

Funding

Learning from The Lancet: Lessons and future research directions drawn from the 2012 and 2016 global series on physical activity and healthR13CA228499 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI PRATT, MICHAEL · 2018 to 2018
$34k
NCI NIH HHS R13 CA228499
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the past few decades, the field of physical activity has grown and evolved in scope, depth, visibility and impact around the world. Global progress has been observed in research and practice in physical activity regarding surveillance, health outcomes, correlates/determinants, interventions, translation and policy. The 2012 and 2016

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ExerciseGlobal HealthPublic HealthBiomedical ResearchChronic DiseaseEnergy MetabolismHealthy LifestyleHumansPublicationsSocioeconomic Factorsepidemiologyinterventionphysical activitypreventionsurveillance

Identifiers

PMID31562122
PMCPMC7146932

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