How to assess physical activity? How to assess physical fitness?

By L. Vanhees, J. Lefevre, R. Philippaerts, M. Martens, W. Huygens, T. Troosters, G. Beunen. European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation, 2005

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Subfields: Complementary and alternative medicine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, Physiology

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In Complementary and alternative medicine

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3. Yeh-Liang Hsu
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Citations in the corpus

• The effects of physical activity on sleep: a meta-analytic review (2015, background): “We decided not to examine objective metrics of fitness because few studies provided this data and there is much debate over what is an appropriate measure of fitness (Vanhees et al., 2005).”
• A Review of Accelerometry-Based Wearable Motion Detectors for Physical Activity Monitoring (2010, methodology): “The isotopes analysis and production for DLW method are costly and are not suitable for large-scale studies [43].”
• A systematic review of reliability and objective criterion-related validity of physical activity questionnaires (2012, methodology): “Considerations for researchers when using PAQs in practice have been identified and new research should consider including an objective method for assessing physical activity in addition to any self-report [134].”
• European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: executive summary: Fourth Joint Task Force of the European Society of Cardiology and Other Societies on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Clinical Practice (Constituted by representatives of nine societies and by invit (2007, neutral): “For physical fitness and exercise capacity, maximal incremental exercise testing is used.(80) In clinical practice, the assessment should be combinedwith a total CVD risk estimation using the SCORE/HeartScore method.”
• European guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice: executive summary. (2007, neutral): “For physical fitness and exercise capacity, maximal incremental exercise testing is used.(80) In clinical practice, the assessment should be combinedwith a total CVD risk estimation using the SCORE/HeartScore method.”