Associations among active transportation, physical activity, and weight status in young adults
Associations among active transportation, physical activity, and weight status in young adults
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10.1038/oby.2005.100
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发表时间:
2005-05-01
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Beam, K
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Gordon-Larsen, P;Nelson, MC;Beam, K
Objective: To describe prevalence of active, public, and car transit by overweight status and amount of leisure-lime physical activity in a nationally representative cohort of ethnically diverse young adults.Research Methods and Procedures: Questionnaire data on patterns of transportation were collected from U.S. adolescents enrolled in Wave III (2001) of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 10,771). Measured. height and weight data were used to calculate BMI and classify adults by overweight status (BMI >= 25). Self-reported physical activity data were used to classify adults into those who achieved >= 5 bouts of weekly moderate-vigorous physical activity and those who did not. Results were stratified by overweight and physical activity, status.Results: The vast majority of young adults used car transit (work, 90.4%; school, 74.7%). A small proportion of young adults used active means of transportation to work (8.1%) and school (26.7%), and fewer used public transportation to work or school (