Should physical activity recommendations be ethnicity-specific? Evidence from a cross-sectional study of South Asian and European men

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Celis Morales, Carlos A ^a,b   Ghouri, Nazim ^a   Bailey, Mark E S ^a   Sattar, Naveed ^a   Gill, Jason M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN A1C; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; INSULIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ACCELEROMETRY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOMETABOLIC RISK; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNICITY; EUROPEAN; EXERCISE INTENSITY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSULIN BLOOD LEVEL; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXERCISE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 84892394033     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082568     Document Type: Article

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