Title |
Several steps/day indicators predict changes in anthropometric outcomes: HUB City Steps
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, November 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-983 |
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Authors |
Jessica L Thomson, Alicia S Landry, Jamie M Zoellner, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Michael Webster, Carol Connell, Kathy Yadrick |
Abstract |
Walking for exercise remains the most frequently reported leisure-time activity, likely because it is simple, inexpensive, and easily incorporated into most people's lifestyle. Pedometers are simple, convenient, and economical tools that can be used to quantify step-determined physical activity. Few studies have attempted to define the direct relationship between dynamic changes in pedometer-determined steps/day and changes in anthropometric and clinical outcomes. Hence, the objective of this secondary analysis was to evaluate the utility of several descriptive indicators of pedometer-determined steps/day for predicting changes in anthropometric and clinical outcomes using data from a community-based walking intervention, HUB City Steps, conducted in a southern, African American population. A secondary aim was to evaluate whether treating steps/day data for implausible values affected the ability of these data to predict intervention-induced changes in clinical and anthropometric outcomes. |
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