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The Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Contributions of Accelerometry to Epidemiology, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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The Objective Monitoring of Physical Activity: Contributions of Accelerometry to Epidemiology, Exercise Science and Rehabilitation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Springer Series on Epidemiology and Public Health
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This book examines the new knowledge that has been gained from the
objective monitoring of habitual physical activity by means of
pedometers and accelerometers. It reviews current advances in the
technology of activity monitoring and details advantages of
objective monitors relative to physical activity questionnaires. It
points to continuing gaps in knowledge, and explores the potential
for further advances in the design of objective monitoring devices.
Epidemiologists have studied relationships between questionnaire
assessments of habitual physical activity and various medical
conditions for some seventy years. In general, they have observed
positive associations between regular exercise and good health, but
because of inherent limitations in the reliability and accuracy of
physical activity questionnaires, optimal exercise recommendations
for the prevention and treatment of disease have remained unclear.
Inexpensive pedometers and accelerometers now offer the
epidemiologist the potential to collect relatively precisely graded
and objective information on the volume, intensity and patterns of
effort that people are undertaking, to relate this data to past and
future health experience, and to establish dose/response
relationships between physical activity and the various components
of health. Such information is important both in assessing the
causal nature of the observed associations and in establishing
evidence-based recommendations concerning the minimal levels of
daily physical activity needed to maintain good health.
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