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ArticleJournal of sport and health science2020

Physical activity levels in American and Japanese men from the ERA-JUMP Study and associations with metabolic syndrome.

Naoko Sagawa, Bonny Rockette-Wagner, Koichiro Azuma, Hirotsugu Ueshima, Takashi Hisamatsu, Tomoko Takamiya, Aiman El-Saed, Katsuyuki Miura, Andrea Kriska, Akira Sekikawa

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Article in Journal of sport and health science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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10 authors.

Naoko SagawaDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
Bonny Rockette-WagnerDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA. Electronic address: bjr26@pitt.edu.
Koichiro AzumaInstitute for Integrated Sports Medicine, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo 160-8582, Japan.
Hirotsugu UeshimaDepartment of Public Health, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga 520-2192, Japan.
Takashi HisamatsuDepartment of Environmental Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Shimane University, Shimane 693-0021, Japan.
Tomoko TakamiyaDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
Aiman El-SaedDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
Katsuyuki MiuraDepartment of Public Health, Shiga University of Medical Science, Shiga 520-2192, Japan.
Andrea KriskaDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.
Akira SekikawaDepartment of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA.

Funding

Foreign CohortR01HL068200 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI SEKIKAWA, AKIRA · 2003 to 2012
$5.6M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL068200
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a global health problem. Physical activity (PA) is a known modifiable risk factor for MetS and individual MetS components. However, the role of PA could differ between sub-populations due to differences in the variability of PA and other MetS risk factors. To examine these differences, multi-country studies with standardized outcome measurement methods across cohorts are needed. Methods: Cross-sectional PA levels (total and domain specific) in healthy middle-aged (44-56 years) men in the Risk Factor Assessment among Japanese and U.S. Men in the Post-World War II Birth Cohort (ERA-JUMP) Study ( Results: A total of 510 individuals provided complete data on PA (American: Conclusion: Higher total step counts/day had an important protective effect on MetS prevalence in both the Japanese and American cohorts, despite differences in PA levels and other MetS risk factors. The effect of steps/day (across all intensity levels) was much greater than domain-specific moderate-vigorous PA captured by questionnaire, suggesting the need for measurement tools that can best capture total movement when examining the effects of PA on MetS development.

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PMCPMC7031775

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