List of works - Ulf Ekelund

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

scientific article published on 5 September 2013

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

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

Physical activity energy expenditure of adolescents in India

scientific article published on 4 February 2010

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

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 27 December 2007

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

scientific article

Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

scientific article published on 1 June 2019

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

scientific article published on 31 January 2008

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

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 13 January 2016

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

scientific article published on 15 September 2015

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

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

scientific article published on 13 July 2018

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

scientific article

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

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

scientific article

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

scientific article

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

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

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

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).

scientific article

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

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

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

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

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

scientific article published on 17 May 2018

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

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

scientific article published on 21 January 2020

World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

scientific article published on 01 December 2020

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

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

scientific article published on 05 April 2020

Device-Measured Sleep Characteristics, Daily Step Count, and Cardiometabolic Health Markers: Findings From the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (ProPASS) Consortium

scientific article published in August 2025

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

scientific article

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

scholarly article

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

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

scientific article

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

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

Living actively and sustainably: the opportunity of combining the physical activity and climate change agendas

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

Genetic Contribution of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Morbidity and Mortality: A Prospective FinnGen and HUNT study

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

Reply to A Lu and R Wang

scientific article published in September 2017

Device-Measured 24-Hour Movement Behaviors and Blood Pressure: A 6-Part Compositional Individual Participant Data Analysis in the ProPASS Consortium

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

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

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

List of works by Ulf Ekelund

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

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?

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

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

Physical activity energy expenditure of adolescents in India

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

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

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

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

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

Application of High-Sensitivity Troponin in Suspected Myocardial Infarction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

World Health Organization 2020 guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour

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

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

Device-Measured Sleep Characteristics, Daily Step Count, and Cardiometabolic Health Markers: Findings From the Prospective Physical Activity, Sitting, and Sleep (ProPASS) Consortium

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

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

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

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

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

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

Living actively and sustainably: the opportunity of combining the physical activity and climate change agendas

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

Genetic Contribution of Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Morbidity and Mortality: A Prospective FinnGen and HUNT study

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

Reply to A Lu and R Wang

Device-Measured 24-Hour Movement Behaviors and Blood Pressure: A 6-Part Compositional Individual Participant Data Analysis in the ProPASS Consortium

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

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