Physical Fitness

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A 20-yr longitudinal study of Olympic oarsmen. 
  • A Novel Analytic Technique to Measure Associations Between Circulating Biomarkers and Physical Performance Across the Adult Life Span. 
  • A cluster randomized controlled trial of an incentive-based outdoor physical activity program. 
  • A comparison of performance-based measures of function in HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders. 
  • A fitness training optimization system based on heart rate prediction under different activities. 
  • A latent factor linear mixed model for high-dimensional longitudinal data analysis. 
  • A lipidomics analysis of the relationship between dietary fatty acid composition and insulin sensitivity in young adults. 
  • A pilot study of a home-based motivational exercise program for African American breast cancer survivors: clinical and quality-of-life outcomes. 
  • A pilot study of group exercise training (GET) for women with primary breast cancer: feasibility and health benefits. 
  • A pilot study of high-intensity interval training in older adults with treatment naïve chronic lymphocytic leukemia. 
  • A sex-specific relationship between capillary density and anaerobic threshold. 
  • Adverse Cardiovascular Response to Aerobic Exercise Training: Is This a Concern? 
  • Aerobic fitness, acute exercise and sleep in older men. 
  • Air assault soldiers demonstrate more dangerous landing biomechanics when visual input is removed. 
  • Analysis of change in self-reported physical function among older persons in four population studies. 
  • Association of Physical Inactivity, Weight, Smoking, and Prior Injury on Physical Performance in a Military Setting. 
  • Association of physical fitness and transient myocardial ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Associations between health-related quality of life, cardiorespiratory fitness, muscle strength, physical activity and waist circumference in 10-year-old children: the ASK study. 
  • Associations of internet website use with weight change in a long-term weight loss maintenance program. 
  • Bed rest promotes reductions in walking speed, functional parameters, and aerobic fitness in older, healthy adults. 
  • Behavioral and psychosocial predictors of physical performance: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Cancer survivors' uptake and adherence in diet and exercise intervention trials: an integrative data analysis. 
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness and cognitive function in midlife: neuroprotection or neuroselection? 
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness and health-related quality of life in bariatric surgery patients. 
  • Cardiorespiratory fitness in breast cancer patients: a call for normative values. 
  • Cardiovascular and behavioral effects of aerobic exercise training in healthy older men and women. 
  • Certifying fitness for duty for high-functioning amputees: a review. 
  • Changes in cardiovascular health and physical fitness in ethnic youth with intellectual disabilities participating in a park-based afterschool programme for two years. 
  • Characteristics associated with older adolescents who have a television in their bedrooms. 
  • Combined Inflammation and Metabolism Biomarker Indices of Robust and Impaired Physical Function in Older Adults. 
  • Commentary on "Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing in Children and Adolescents With Dystrophinopathies: A Pilot Study". 
  • Comparison of habitual runners and anorexia nervosa patients. 
  • Correlation between symptoms and function in older adults with comorbidity. 
  • Depletion of circulating progenitor cells precedes overt diabetes: a substudy from the VA enhanced fitness trial. 
  • Depressive Symptoms, Exercise Capacity, and Clinical Outcomes After Lung Transplantation. 
  • Descriptive Epidemiology of Musculoskeletal Injuries in the Army 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division. 
  • Diabetes Mellitus Blunts the Symptoms, Physical Function, and Health-Related Quality of Life Benefits of Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Systematic Review With Meta-analysis of Data From More Than 17 000 Patients. 
  • Diet and exercise intervention adherence and health-related outcomes among older long-term breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer survivors. 
  • Diet and exercise interventions reduce intrahepatic fat content and improve insulin sensitivity in obese older adults. 
  • Dynamic vs. static-stretching warm up: the effect on power and agility performance. 
  • Economic analyses of the Be Fit Be Well program: a weight loss program for community health centers. 
  • Effect of a stepped-care intervention approach on weight loss in adults: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effect of cardiac rehabilitation on functional outcomes after coronary revascularization. 
  • Effect of exercise intensity and volume on persistence of insulin sensitivity during training cessation. 
  • Effect of telephone exercise counseling on frailty in older veterans: project LIFE. 
  • Effects of Age and Military Service on Strength and Physiological Characteristics of U.S. Army Soldiers. 
  • Effects of aerobic and/or resistance training on body mass and fat mass in overweight or obese adults. 
  • Effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive and psychosocial functioning in patients with mild hypertension. 
  • Effects of aerobic exercise training, age, and physical fitness on memory-search performance. 
  • Effects of comprehensive lifestyle modification on diet, weight, physical fitness, and blood pressure control: 18-month results of a randomized trial. 
  • Effects of dynamic warm-up with and without a weighted vest on lower extremity power performance of high school male athletes. 
  • Effects of exercise and weight loss on depressive symptoms among men and women with hypertension. 
  • Effects of exercise and weight loss on mental stress-induced cardiovascular responses in individuals with high blood pressure. 
  • Effects of exercise on the Type A (coronary prone) behavior pattern. 
  • Effects of exercise training amount and intensity on peak oxygen consumption in middle-age men and women at risk for cardiovascular disease. 
  • Effects of exercise training on bone density in older men and women. 
  • Effects of exercise training on older patients with major depression. 
  • Effects of individual components of multiple behavior changes: the PREMIER trial. 
  • Effects of sit-up training versus core stabilization exercises on sit-up performance. 
  • Emerging risk factors as markers for carotid intima media thickness scores. 
  • Endothelial Progenitor Cell Levels Predict Future Physical Function: An Exploratory Analysis From the VA Enhanced Fitness Study. 
  • Endothelial dysfunction and cardiovascular disease in childhood obesity. 
  • Energetics of walking in elderly people: factors related to gait speed. 
  • Enhanced fitness: a randomized controlled trial of the effects of home-based physical activity counseling on glycemic control in older adults with prediabetes mellitus. 
  • Enhanced left ventricular diastolic filling associated with long-term endurance training. 
  • Establishment of the Pediatric Obesity Weight Evaluation Registry: A National Research Collaborative for Identifying the Optimal Assessment and Treatment of Pediatric Obesity. 
  • Estimation of energetic condition in wild baboons using fecal thyroid hormone determination. 
  • Evaluation of a supervised exercise program in a geriatric population. 
  • Exercise and health: can biotechnology confer similar benefits? 
  • Exercise as treatment for androgen deprivation therapy-associated physical dysfunction: ready for prime time? 
  • Exercise fails to improve neurocognition in depressed middle-aged and older adults. 
  • Exercise to improve spinal flexibility and function for people with Parkinson's disease: a randomized, controlled trial. 
  • Exercise training, lipid regulation, and insulin action: a tangled web of cause and effect. 
  • Exercise, Dopamine, and Cognition in Older Age. 
  • Exploring Differences in Cardiorespiratory Fitness Response Rates Across Varying Doses of Exercise Training: A Retrospective Analysis of Eight Randomized Controlled Trials. 
  • Extent and correlates of change in anthropometric and fitness outcomes among participants in a corporate team-based weight loss challenge in Singapore: lose to win 2009. 
  • Failure of exercise to reduce blood pressure in patients with mild hypertension. Results of a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Feasibility and benefits of exercise training in patients on maintenance dialysis. 
  • Fitness and Fatness Are Both Associated with Cardiometabolic Risk in Preadolescents. 
  • Fitness levels of middle aged martial art practitioners. 
  • Five-year performance trends for older exercisers: a hierarchical model of endurance, strength, and flexibility. 
  • Frequency of physical activity, exercise capacity, and atherosclerotic heart disease risk factors in male police officers. 
  • Functional impact of 10 days of bed rest in healthy older adults. 
  • Gender Differences in Demographic and Health Characteristics of the Million Veteran Program Cohort. 
  • General and specific stress mindsets: Links with college student health and academic performance. 
  • Genetic correlations of psychiatric traits with body composition and glycemic traits are sex- and age-dependent. 
  • Genomewide Association Scan of a Mortality Associated Endophenotype for a Long and Healthy Life in the Long Life Family Study. 
  • Genomic predictors of the maximal O₂ uptake response to standardized exercise training programs. 
  • HIV and three dimensions of Wisdom: Association with cognitive function and physical and mental well-being: For: Psychiatry Research. 
  • Health promotion in primary care: a survey of U.S. family practitioners. 
  • Health-related quality of life varies among obese subgroups. 
  • Human Performance Optimization Metrics: Consensus Findings, Gaps, and Recommendations for Future Research. 
  • Identification of Risk Factors Prospectively Associated With Musculoskeletal Injury in a Warrior Athlete Population. 
  • Impact of a managed-Medicare physical activity benefit on health care utilization and costs in older adults with diabetes. 
  • Impact of hormone replacement therapy on exercise training-induced improvements in insulin action in sedentary overweight adults. 
  • Improved fitness narrows the symptom-reporting gap between older men and women. 
  • Improvements in Functional Exercise Capacity after a Residential Behavioural Change, Diet and Fitness Program for Obese Adults. 
  • Improvements in physical fitness in adults with Down syndrome. 
  • Improving aerobic capacity in healthy older adults does not necessarily lead to improved cognitive performance. 
  • Improving the fitness of the NASH clinical trial: Standardizing the standard-of-care intervention. 
  • Inclusion of Functional Status Measures in the Risk Adjustment of 30-Day Mortality After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Report From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons/American College of Cardiology TVT Registry. 
  • Indications, labeling, and outcomes assessment for drugs aimed at improving functional status in older persons: a conversation between aging researchers and FDA regulators. 
  • Indirect costs of obesity: a review of the current literature. 
  • Individual-Level Fitness and Absenteeism in New York City Middle School Youths, 2006-2013. 
  • Influence of change in aerobic fitness and weight on prevalence of metabolic syndrome. 
  • Injury and fitness outcomes during implementation of physical readiness training. 
  • Interrelationships of peak expiratory flow rate with physical and cognitive function in the elderly: MacArthur Foundation studies of aging. 
  • Is Functional Independence Associated With Improved Long-Term Survival After Lung Transplantation? 
  • Is Less Sedentary Behavior, More Physical Activity, or Higher Fitness Associated with Sleep Quality? A Cross-Sectional Study in Singapore. 
  • Knee arthroplasties have similar results in high- and low-activity patients. 
  • Less body fat improves physical and physiological performance in army soldiers. 
  • Lifestyle and Neurocognition in Older Adults With Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Cognitive Impairment. 
  • Lifestyle intervention development study to improve physical function in older adults with cancer: outcomes from Project LEAD. 
  • Long-term effects of exercise on psychological functioning in older men and women. 
  • Longitudinal Association between Weight Status, Aerobic Capacity, Muscular Strength, and Endurance among New York City Youth, 2010-2017. 
  • Longitudinal analysis of cardiovascular disease risk profile in neighbourhood poverty subgroups: 5-year results from an afterschool fitness programme in the USA. 
  • Lower levels of circulating progenitor cells are associated with low physical function and performance in elderly men with impaired glucose tolerance: a pilot substudy from the VA Enhanced Fitness trial. 
  • Managed-Medicare health club benefit and reduced health care costs among older adults. 
  • Menopausal status, moderate-intensity walking, and symptoms in midlife women. 
  • Mental Health, Sleep and Physical Function in Treatment Seeking Women with Urinary Incontinence. 
  • Metabolic deterioration of the sedentary control group in clinical trials. 
  • Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Incident Cancer, and Survival After Cancer in Men: The Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. 
  • Minimal difference between aerobic and progressive resistance exercise on metabolic profile and fitness in older adults with diabetes mellitus: a randomised trial. 
  • Musculoskeletal Injuries and United States Army Readiness. Part II: Management Challenges and Risk Mitigation Initiatives. 
  • Myocardial injury and ventricular dysfunction related to training levels among nonelite participants in the Boston marathon. 
  • Neurocognition in treatment-resistant hypertension: profile and associations with cardiovascular biomarkers. 
  • Otorhinolaryngology and Diving-Part 2: Otorhinolaryngological Fitness for Compressed Gas Scuba Diving: A Review. 
  • Outcomes of a home-based walking program for African-American women. 
  • Pain, physical functioning, and overeating in obese rheumatoid arthritis patients: do thoughts about pain and eating matter? 
  • Pathways from physical activity to quality of life in older women. 
  • Patient and Caregiver Attitudes and Practices of Exercise in Candidates Listed for Liver Transplantation. 
  • Perceptions of Exercise and Its Challenges in Patients With Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: A Survey-Based Study. 
  • Physical Resilience in Older Adults: Systematic Review and Development of an Emerging Construct. 
  • Physical activity at age 12 and adult breast cancer risk (United States). 
  • Physical activity patterns during pregnancy through postpartum. 
  • Physical activity, genetic, and nutritional considerations in childhood weight management. 
  • Physical conditioning and left ventricular performance in the elderly: assessment by radionuclide angiocardiography. 
  • Physical conditioning augments the fibrinolytic response to venous occlusion in healthy adults. 
  • Physical fitness and functional limitations in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Physical fitness disparities among New York City public school youth using standardized methods, 2006-2017. 
  • Physical fitness predicts functional tasks in individuals with Down syndrome. 
  • Physical function and activity among older adults in Jodhpur, India. 
  • Physical function and independence 1 year after myocardial infarction: observations from the Translational Research Investigating Underlying disparities in recovery from acute Myocardial infarction: Patients' Health status registry. 
  • Physical function in men and women with cancer. Effects of anemia and conditioning. 
  • Physician Beliefs about Physical and Mental Competency of Patients Applying for Concealed Weapon Permits. 
  • Physiologic basis for the age-related decline in aerobic work capacity. 
  • Predicting changes in physical performance in a high-functioning elderly cohort: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Predictors of cognitive change in older persons: MacArthur studies of successful aging. 
  • Prevention of bedrest-induced physical deconditioning by daily dobutamine infusions. Implications for drug-induced physical conditioning. 
  • Primary prevention of ischemic stroke: A statement for healthcare professionals from the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association. 
  • Primary prevention of ischemic stroke: A statement for healthcare professionals from the Stroke Council of the American Heart Association. 
  • Prospective study of associations among positive emotion and functional status in older patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Psychological and cognitive outcomes of a randomized trial of exercise among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Psychological and physiological effects of physical conditioning on the elderly. 
  • Quantitative assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness, skeletal muscle function, and body composition in adults with primary malignant glioma. 
  • Recruitment of African American women to a walking program: eligibility, ineligibility, and attrition during screening. 
  • Reduced cardiorespiratory fitness in adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 
  • Relationship between exercise behavior, cardiorespiratory fitness, and cognitive function in early breast cancer patients treated with doxorubicin-containing chemotherapy: a pilot study. 
  • Relationship between fat-to-fat-free mass ratio and decrements in leg strength after downhill running. 
  • Relationships between mobility of axial structures and physical performance. 
  • Reliability of alternative trunk endurance testing procedures using clinician stabilization vs. traditional methods. 
  • Religiosity, psychological resources, and physical health. 
  • Response of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein to exercise training in an at-risk population. 
  • Rising U.S. income inequality and the changing gradient of socioeconomic status on physical functioning and activity limitations, 1984-2007. 
  • Role of aerobic fitness and aging on cerebral white matter integrity. 
  • Safety and feasibility of aerobic training on cardiopulmonary function and quality of life in postsurgical nonsmall cell lung cancer patients: a pilot study. 
  • Saving athletes' lives a reason to find common ground? 
  • Self-management of fibromyalgia: the role of formal coping skills training and physical exercise training programs. 
  • Severe obesity and fitness in New York City public school youth, 2010-2018. 
  • Sex differences in fitness outcomes among minority youth after participation in a park-based after-school program. 
  • Short-Term Changes in Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Response to Exercise Training and the Association with Long-Term Cardiorespiratory Fitness Decline: The STRRIDE Reunion Study. 
  • Skeletal muscle dictates the fibrinolytic state after exercise training in overweight men with characteristics of metabolic syndrome. 
  • Sports after knee arthroplasty: partial versus total knee arthroplasty. 
  • Stress reactivity and exercise training in premenopausal and postmenopausal women. 
  • Television viewing and pedometer-determined physical activity among multiethnic residents of low-income housing. 
  • Temporal trends in self-reported functional limitations and physical disability among the community-dwelling elderly population: the Framingham heart study. 
  • The Association of Health-Related Fitness and Chronic Absenteeism Status in New York City Middle School Youth. 
  • The Diet Quality Index-Revised: a tool to promote and evaluate dietary change among older cancer survivors enrolled in a home-based intervention trial. 
  • The Eagle Tactical Athlete Program Reduces Musculoskeletal Injuries in the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). 
  • The Effect of a Park-Based Physical Activity Program on Cardiovascular, Strength, and Mobility Outcomes Among a Sample of Racially/Ethnically Diverse Adults Aged 55 or Older. 
  • The National Physical Activity Plan: a call to action from the American Heart Association: a science advisory from the American Heart Association. 
  • The YMCA Healthy, Fit, and Strong Program: a community-based, family-centered, low-cost obesity prevention/treatment pilot study. 
  • The association between neighborhood quality, youth physical fitness, and modifiable cardiovascular disease risk factors. 
  • The association between student body mass index and tests of flexibility assessed by the FITNESSGRAM®: New York City public school students, 2017-18. 
  • The association between successful treatment of depression and physical functioning in older people seeking primary care. 
  • The association of fitness and school absenteeism across gender and poverty: a prospective multilevel analysis in New York City middle schools. 
  • The effects of student, school and neighborhood poverty on the association between fitness and absenteeism in New York City middle school youth. 
  • The impact of self-reported arthritis and diabetes on response to a home-based physical activity counselling intervention. 
  • The influence of adjuvant therapy on cardiorespiratory fitness in early-stage breast cancer seven years after diagnosis: the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study. 
  • The longitudinal association between asthma severity and physical fitness among new York City public school youth. 
  • The relationship between health-related quality of life and weight loss. 
  • The relative importance of strength and balance in chair rise by functionally impaired older individuals. 
  • The type A behavior pattern, physical fitness, and psychophysiological reactivity. 
  • Tibial stress fractures in an active duty population: long-term outcomes. 
  • Trajectories of leg strength and gait speed among sedentary older adults: longitudinal pattern of dose response. 
  • Trajectory of declines in physical activity in community-dwelling older women: social cognitive influences. 
  • Traveling With Cancer: A Guide for Oncologists in the Modern World. 
  • Treatments-Preventive. 
  • Trends in cardiorespiratory fitness: The evolution of exercise treadmill testing at a single Academic Medical Center from 1970 to 2012. 
  • Two Approaches to Classifying and Quantifying Physical Resilience in Longitudinal Data. 
  • Two-year trends in physical performance following supervised exercise among community-dwelling older veterans. 
  • Unlocking the barriers to improved functional capacity in the elderly: rationale and design for the "Fit for Life trial". 
  • Warrior Model for Human Performance and Injury Prevention: Eagle Tactical Athlete Program (ETAP) Part I. 
  • Warrior Model for Human Performance and Injury Prevention: Eagle Tactical Athlete Program (ETAP) Part II. 
  • Where does fitness fit in? 
  • Work Group recommendations: 2002 Exercise and Physical Activity Conference, St Louis, Missouri. 
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  Keywords of People

  • D'Agostino, Emily Meredith, Assistant Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Population Health Sciences
  • Georgiades, Anastasia, Research Scientist, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Moffitt, Terrie E., Nannerl O. Keohane University Distinguished Professor, Psychology & Neuroscience
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine