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SUBMITTER: Mekary RA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4310793 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mekary Rania A RA Grøntved Anders A Despres Jean-Pierre JP De Moura Leandro Pereira LP Asgarzadeh Morteza M Willett Walter C WC Rimm Eric B EB Giovannucci Edward E Hu Frank B FB
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) 20141219 2
<h4>Objective</h4>Findings on weight training and waist circumference (WC) change are controversial. This study examined prospectively whether weight training, moderate to vigorous aerobic activity (MVAA), and replacement of one activity for another were associated with favorable changes in WC and body weight (BW).<h4>Methods</h4>Physical activity, WC, and BW were reported in 1996 and 2008 in a cohort of 10,500 healthy U.S. men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study. Multiple linear regress ...[more]