List of works by Ulf Ekelund

A Comparison between BMI, Waist Circumference, and Waist-To-Height Ratio for Identifying Cardio-Metabolic Risk in Children and Adolescents

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A mixed ecologic-cohort comparison of physical activity & weight among young adults from five populations of African origin

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A pedometer-based walking intervention in 45- to 75-year-olds, with and without practice nurse support: the PACE-UP three-arm cluster RCT

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Absence of association between the INSIG2 gene polymorphism (rs7566605) and obesity in the European Youth Heart Study (EYHS).

scientific article published on 5 February 2009

Accelerometer-measured physical activity is not associated with two-year weight change in African-origin adults from five diverse populations

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Accuracy and validity of a combined heart rate and motion sensor for the measurement of free-living physical activity energy expenditure in adults in Cameroon

scientific article published on 6 June 2010

Activity levels in mothers and their preschool children

scientific article published on 24 March 2014

An investigation of patterns of children's sedentary and vigorous physical activity throughout the week

scientific article published on 9 December 2010

Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 1 June 2019

Association between birth weight and visceral fat in adults

scientific article published on 2 June 2010

Association of car ownership and physical activity across the spectrum of human development: Modeling the Epidemiologic Transition Study (METS)

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Association of genetic Loci with glucose levels in childhood and adolescence: a meta-analysis of over 6,000 children ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 April 2011

Association of weight gain in infancy and early childhood with metabolic risk in young adults

scientific article published on 10 October 2006

Associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and the metabolic syndrome: A meta-analysis of more than 6000 children and adolescents

scientific article published on 10 November 2019

Associations of physical activity, sedentary time, and diet quality with biomarkers of inflammation in children

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Birth weight, cardiometabolic risk factors and effect modification of physical activity in children and adolescents: pooled data from 12 international studies

scientific article published on 03 June 2020

Breaking-up sedentary time is associated with impairment in activities of daily living.

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

Change in objectively measured physical activity during the transition to adolescence

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Changes in children's physical activity over 12 months: longitudinal results from the SPEEDY study.

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Changes in physical activity and sedentary time during adolescence - Gender differences during weekdays and weekend days

scientific article published on 05 April 2020

Cohort profile: updating the cohort profile for the MRC National Survey of Health and Development: a new clinic-based data collection for ageing research

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Combined impact of lifestyle factors on prospective change in body weight and waist circumference in participants of the EPIC-PANACEA study

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Common genetic determinants of glucose homeostasis in healthy children: the European Youth Heart Study

scientific article published on 09 September 2009

Comparison of the EPIC Physical Activity Questionnaire with combined heart rate and movement sensing in a nationally representative sample of older British adults

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Comparisons of intensity-duration patterns of physical activity in the US, Jamaica and 3 African countries.

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Correction to: Physical activity intensity, bout-duration, and cardiometabolic risk markers in children and adolescents ⬇️

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Correlates of light and moderate-to-vigorous objectively measured physical activity in four-year-old children

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

Criterion-related validity of the last 7-day, short form of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire in Swedish adults.

scientific article published in April 2006

Determinants of change in children's sedentary time

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Determinants of non- response to a second assessment of lifestyle factors and body weight in the EPIC-PANACEA study

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Does adiposity mediate the relationship between physical activity and biological risk factors in youth?: a cross-sectional study from the International Children's Accelerometry Database (ICAD).

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Does cardiorespiratory fitness moderate the prospective association between physical activity and cardiometabolic risk factors in children?

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

Dose-response associations between accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time and all cause mortality: systematic review and harmonised meta-analysis

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Effect of a Primary Care Walking Intervention with and without Nurse Support on Physical Activity Levels in 45- to 75-Year-Olds: The Pedometer And Consultation Evaluation (PACE-UP) Cluster Randomised Clinical Trial

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Effect of oxygen therapy on myocardial salvage in ST elevation myocardial infarction: the randomized SOCCER trial.

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Effect of pedometer-based walking interventions on long-term health outcomes: Prospective 4-year follow-up of two randomised controlled trials using routine primary care data

scientific article published on 25 June 2019

Efficacy of a theory-based behavioural intervention to increase physical activity in an at-risk group in primary care (ProActive UK): a randomised trial

scientific article published in The Lancet

Family dog ownership and levels of physical activity in childhood: findings from the Child Heart and Health Study in England

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Free-living physical activity energy expenditure is strongly related to glucose intolerance in Cameroonian adults independently of obesity

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Gender but not diabetes, hypertension or smoking affects infarct evolution in ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients - data from the CHILL-MI, MITOCARE and SOCCER trials

scientific article published on 03 July 2019

Genetic variation in LIN28B is associated with the timing of puberty

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Habitual energy expenditure modifies the association between NOS3 gene polymorphisms and blood pressure

scientific article published on 31 January 2008

Identification of heart rate-associated loci and their effects on cardiac conduction and rhythm disorders

scientific article published on 14 April 2013

Interpreting population reach of a large, successful physical activity trial delivered through primary care.

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

Joint associations of accelero-meter measured physical activity and sedentary time with all-cause mortality: a harmonised meta-analysis in more than 44 000 middle-aged and older individuals

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Lack of association between PCK1 polymorphisms and obesity, physical activity, and fitness in European Youth Heart Study (EYHS).

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

Leptin predicts a worsening of the features of the metabolic syndrome independently of obesity

scientific article published in August 2005

Levels of physical activity among a nationally representative sample of people in early old age: results of objective and self-reported assessments

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Longitudinal associations of physical activity, sedentary time, and cardiorespiratory fitness with arterial health in children – the PANIC study

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Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, but not sedentary time, predicts changes in cardiometabolic risk factors in 10-y-old children: the Active Smarter Kids Study.

scientific article published on 5 April 2017

More of the same or a change of scenery: an observational study of variety and frequency of physical activity in British children

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Multiple behaviour change intervention and outcomes in recently diagnosed type 2 diabetes: the ADDITION-Plus randomised controlled trial

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No interactions between previously associated 2-hour glucose gene variants and physical activity or BMI on 2-hour glucose levels

scientific article published on 13 March 2012

Obesity-susceptibility loci have a limited influence on birth weight: a meta-analysis of up to 28,219 individuals

scientific article published on 19 January 2011

Objectively measured moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity but not sedentary time predicts insulin resistance in high-risk individuals

scientific article published on 27 February 2009

Objectively measured physical activity in four-year-old British children: a cross-sectional analysis of activity patterns segmented across the day.

scientific article published on 09 January 2014

Objectively measured sedentary time and physical activity and associations with body weight gain: does body weight determine a decline in moderate and vigorous intensity physical activity?

scientific article published on 4 August 2017

Objectively measured sedentary time may predict insulin resistance independent of moderate- and vigorous-intensity physical activity.

scientific article published on 26 May 2009

PACE-UP (Pedometer and consultation evaluation--UP)--a pedometer-based walking intervention with and without practice nurse support in primary care patients aged 45-75 years: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

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Physical activity and dietary behaviour in a population-based sample of British 10-year old children: the SPEEDY study (Sport, Physical activity and Eating behaviour: environmental Determinants in Young people).

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Physical activity and gain in abdominal adiposity and body weight: prospective cohort study in 288,498 men and women

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Physical activity and mammographic breast density in the EPIC-Norfolk cohort study

scientific article published on 27 December 2007

Physical activity and mortality: what is the dose response and how big is the effect?

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

Physical activity attenuates the body mass index–increasing influence of genetic variation in the FTO gene

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Physical activity attenuates the genetic predisposition to obesity in 20,000 men and women from EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study

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Physical activity attenuates the influence of FTO variants on obesity risk: a meta-analysis of 218,166 adults and 19,268 children

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Physical activity energy expenditure of adolescents in India.

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

Physical activity intensity, bout-duration, and cardiometabolic risk markers in children and adolescents

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

Physical activity intensity, sedentary time, and body composition in preschoolers

scientific article published on 03 April 2013

Physical activity levels in adults and older adults 3-4 years after pedometer-based walking interventions: Long-term follow-up of participants from two randomised controlled trials in UK primary care

scientific article published on 09 March 2018

Predicting physical activity energy expenditure using accelerometry in adults from sub-Sahara Africa

scientific article published on 26 February 2009

Predictors of change differ for moderate and vigorous intensity physical activity and for weekdays and weekends: a longitudinal analysis

scientific article published on 28 May 2013

Protocol for the modeling the epidemiologic transition study: a longitudinal observational study of energy balance and change in body weight, diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk

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Randomized controlled trial of the efficacy of aerobic exercise in reducing metabolic risk in healthy older people: The Hertfordshire Physical Activity Trial

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Rapid Rule-out of Acute Myocardial Infarction With a Single High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T Measurement Below the Limit of Detection: A Collaborative Meta-analysis

scientific article published on 18 April 2017

Recommendations for determining the validity of consumer wearable and smartphone step count: expert statement and checklist of the INTERLIVE network

scientific article published on 24 December 2020

Recommendations for determining the validity of consumer wearable heart rate devices: expert statement and checklist of the INTERLIVE Network

scientific article published on 04 January 2021

Relating process evaluation measures to complex intervention outcomes: findings from the PACE-UP primary care pedometer-based walking trial.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Relationship between subdomains of total physical activity and mortality

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Reply to A Lu and R Wang

scientific article published in September 2017

Short-term and long-term cost-effectiveness of a pedometer-based exercise intervention in primary care: a within-trial analysis and beyond-trial modelling

scientific article published on 17 October 2018

Targeting sedentary time or moderate- and vigorous-intensity activity: independent relations with adiposity in a population-based sample of 10-y-old British children.

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Television viewing and incident cardiovascular disease: prospective associations and mediation analysis in the EPIC Norfolk Study

scientific article published in 2011

Television viewing time independently predicts all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: the EPIC Norfolk Study

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The ProActive trial protocol - a randomised controlled trial of the efficacy of a family-based, domiciliary intervention programme to increase physical activity among individuals at high risk of diabetes [ISRCTN61323766]

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The independent prospective associations of activity intensity and dietary energy density with adiposity in young adolescents

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

Upward weight percentile crossing in infancy and early childhood independently predicts fat mass in young adults: the Stockholm Weight Development Study (SWEDES).

scientific article published in February 2006

Urbanization, physical activity, and metabolic health in sub-Saharan Africa

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Validity of a combined heart rate and motion sensor for the measurement of free-living energy expenditure in very active individuals

scientific article published on 18 September 2013

Validity of electronically administered Recent Physical Activity Questionnaire (RPAQ) in ten European countries

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Variation in population levels of physical activity in European adults according to cross-European studies: a systematic literature review within DEDIPAC

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Variation in population levels of physical activity in European children and adolescents according to cross-European studies: a systematic literature review within DEDIPAC

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Variation in population levels of sedentary time in European adults according to cross-European studies: a systematic literature review within DEDIPAC

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Variations in accelerometry measured physical activity and sedentary time across Europe - harmonized analyses of 47,497 children and adolescents

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants

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