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. 2013;40(3):293-5.

Emerging modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women: obesity, physical activity, and sedentary behavior

Ann Smith Barnes  1
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Emerging modifiable risk factors for cardiovascular disease in women: obesity, physical activity, and sedentary behavior

Ann Smith Barnes. Tex Heart Inst J. 2013.
No abstract available

Keywords: Cardiovascular diseases/epidemiology/ethnology; exercise; female; male; motor activity; obesity/blood; rest/physiology; risk factors; risk reduction behavior; weight loss.

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Fig. 1 Relative risk of congestive heart disease (CHD) among women by body mass index, hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, both, or diabetes. From the Nurses' Health Study. Reproduced with permission from Nature Publishing Group. Adjusted for age, family history of myocardial infarction, smoking, height, marital status, profession, intake of alcohol, saturated fat, polyunsaturated fat, trans fat, folate, vitamin E, and total energy.
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Fig. 2 Age-adjusted all-cause death rates across categories of daily sitting time in subgroups defined by A) leisure-time physical activity (active defined as ≥7.5 METċhrċwk−1), B) body mass index (BMI), and C) smoking status in 17,013 men and women from the Canada Fitness Survey, 1981–1993. The height of the bars indicates the mortality rates, and the numbers atop the bars are the hazard ratios from the proportional hazards regression. The sample size for body mass index was 10,477. Reproduced with permission from Wolters Kluwer Health (Katzmarzyk Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 2009).
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